[RobbyS]

About the school boards. A court is no more competent to decide a scientific issue than a school board is. And scientists are as prone to lobby as anyone. Look at the huge lobbying effort for embryonic stem cell research, even though it raised difficult moral issues. What they were looking at was funding that would keep them employed for a decade or more.

[antiRepublicrat]

The court didn't decide a scientific issue. It decided what was religion and what wasn't. The Discovery Institute tried to back out of the case because some board members let it slip that to them the statement had a purpose of religious indoctrination. It also didn't help that the board members perjured themselves.

What they were looking at was funding that would keep them employed for a decade or more.

They all go for funding. The Wedge Strategy is quite different. It's a propaganda and lobbying front to put the cart before the horse, put support before any science.