User:WaitingforGodot/anti

Current situations in anti-science legislation around the world.

United States
March 16, 2012 : Oklahoma passed an "anti science" bill, which took aim specifically at the teaching of Evoultion and Global warming in public schools. |House Bill 1551, using the tried language of "encouraging debate and scientific inquiry" while "learning about scientific evidence..." has "produced controversy" which may lead teachers to fell "unsure of the expectations concerning how they should present information on some subjects such as, but not limited to, biological evolution, the chemical origins of life, global warming, and human cloning." Therefore, "teachers...shall be encouraged to teach...the weaknesses of [modern controversial theories.]" As well, the act will "protect the teaching of scientific information". On it's face it sounds acceptable enough, except it is a blatant open door policy to bring any theory, including creationism, into the classroom as "science", and no parent or student has the right to demand the teacher stick with accepted science.