January 25th, 2007 Central Archivist
THE FORCES OF LUDDISM are on the march again — this time in Mississippi of all places.Â
NCSE is reporting that a bill has been introduced into the Mississippi legislature that would pave the way for the teaching of creationism in school:
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January 22nd, 2007 RWA
Well, the allegations that the Bush administration had been muzzling park employees from telling tourists the true age of the Grand Canyon have been proven to be false. The first indications that these claims were at the very least dubious were provided by Rick Moran of the certifiably sane Right Wing Nuthouse (scroll down the linked post until you reach Moran’s update), and were confirmed by the indefatigable Michael Shermer, skeptic extraordinaire. So we conservatives can rest easy now, right? This casts a shadow of doubt over all those claims of a “Republican/Bush War on Science”, and we can now safely dismiss them as mere ideological jousting, correct?
Alas, no. This case cannot and should not be ignored, because there are a lot of lessons to be learned from it. We should be asking ourselves: how did such a false claim gain such credibility in the first place, even among people trained to be skeptical? Many of us here at Darwin Central readily accepted these allegations at face value. It’s one thing for liberals who are already predisposed to devour any anti-Bush innuendo to embrace them, but why did a coterie of rational-minded conservatives also think them to be true? (see here).
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