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Published on: 6/10/2008
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Seems like this must be reporter Laura Beil's first rodeo because she gets all excited (mistakenly) about something that is old hat in Texas: textbook wrangling.
Now a battle looms in Texas over science textbooks that teach evolution, and the wrestle for control seizes on three words.None of them are "creationism" or "intelligent design" or even "creator."
The words are "strengths and weaknesses."
Surely Beil did some research and found out that this battle last played out five years ago, so it's hardly new.Back then the issue really was textbooks.This time it's the language of the science standards themselves.
According to the critics, (of which Beil interviewed quite a few, as opposed to the one single person she spoke to that favors the current science standards, but balance and accuracy aren't exactly currency of the realm in the Times' news rooms, either Dallas or New York) the Texas science standards need to be revised to remove the phrase "strengths and weaknesses."
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That this is false can be proven with only a minimal amount of research, which makes it so much more surprising that Beil would blindly follow the assertions of the NCSE and others without bothering to call the people they're attacking - Discovery Institute and Texans for Better Science Education.
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