Re: improving textbooks -- some modest proposals

["Paul O. Johnson" <pojhome@SWBELL.NET>]

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From: "John Clement" <clement@HAL-PC.ORG>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: improving textbooks -- some modest proposals


> There are already PACs that are pressuring states to omit evolution from
> bio. texts.  I doubt that you could get the public excited over textbooks.
> The public will get excited when they think that they might die or have to
> pay too much for health care, but accuracy of textbooks????

Click on the link below, John, to see where it's leading.

http://www.theonion.com/onion3631/christian_right_lobbies.html

Since this piece appears in The Onion, we'll have to assume it is somewhat
tongue in cheek, but it sure sounds like what the Kansas School Board tried
to do with teaching evolution in biology classes.