Re: [Phys-L] GCC: "More than a quarter of teachers give equal time to perspectives that raise doubt about the scientific consensus."

[Brian Whatcott <betwys1@sbcglobal.net>]

Darwin certainly escaped the great plague (~1665) by a gross of years! (born 1809)    On Monday, August 16, 2021, 05:10:01 PM CDT, bernard cleyet <bernard@cleyet.org> wrote:  
 
         
https://climate360news.lmu.edu/climate-change-is-widely-taught-in-american-public-schools-but-students-are-receiving-mixed-messages/ <https://climate360news.lmu.edu/climate-change-is-widely-taught-in-american-public-schools-but-students-are-receiving-mixed-messages/>  

Prospects for curbing AGCC don’t “look good”.  

bc ….  wonders how much this is due to the carbon industries’  influence. 


I remember a famous political interfering in science in the 17th  cent.    


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_Galileo <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_Galileo>  


Garret Hardin posited that isolation sometimes results in a great advancement.  His famous example is Darwin’s escape from plagued London to write his magnum opus,  Mine:  House arrest of Galileo.  


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