Fluffeh writes:
"For a few years the National Research Council, National Science Teachers Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science have been working to put together a set of standards for teaching science in public education schools. So far, nine states and the District of Columbia have adopted the standards. Wyoming doesn't appear to have issues with evolution. Instead, climate science appears to be the problem. That's not because any of the legislators have actually studied the science involved and found it lacking. The issue appears to be solely with the implications of the science.
State Representative Matt Teeters had this to say '[The standards] handle global warming as settled science. There's all kind of social implications involved in that that I don't think would be good for Wyoming.' Specifically, Teeters seems to think that having citizens of the state accept climate science would 'wreck Wyoming's economy,' which relies heavily on fossil fuel production."
(Score: 2) by wjwlsn on Monday March 17 2014, @02:30PM
You don't even know what I believe about climate change or global warming, and I'm not going to enlighten you. However, that is an interesting statement you just made... Suppose there was some major new discovery that had the potential to change our understanding of basic chemistry -- or of any other science that currently seems set in stone -- would you still say that it's not up for debate?
I am a traveler of both time and space. Duh.