[Phys-L] Re: Florida gets an F in science

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@REDSHIFT.COM>]

For want of a better thread to which to reply:

What's the one thing about science that you wish the public understood
better?


That doubts, additional questions, argument and criticism contribute to
the strength, not the weakness, of scientific thought.

Roberto Macchiarelli,  paleoanthropologist

I just discovered in Nature, 25 September 2003 p. 349



jbellina wrote:

> I note with some interest that the chief author is Paul Gross who is
> on one of the poles in the science wars.  See for example:
>  Higher Superstition by Gross and Levitt, or
> Flight from Science and Reason ed Gross, Levitt, Lewis.
>
> Surely this taints the document as politically motivated rather than
> a balanced analysis.
>
> do enjoy the new year all.
>
> joe
>
> Joseph J. Bellina, Jr. Ph.D.
> Professor of Physics
> Saint Mary's College
> Notre Dame, IN 46556
>
> On Dec 30, 2005, at 12:38 PM, Robert B Zannelli wrote:
>
>
>
> > Gov. Jeb Bush staked out a curious position on a hot-button issue
> > last week:
> > Florida's K-12 science standards need beefing up, he said. But
> > Darwin's
> > theory  of evolution should not be part of them.
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