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posted by LaminatorX on Monday March 17 2014, @03:54AM   Printer-friendly
from the head-in-the-sand dept.

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."

 
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  • (Score: 1) by mvdwege on Tuesday March 18 2014, @10:01AM

    by mvdwege (3388) on Tuesday March 18 2014, @10:01AM (#17984)

    And how's that Newtonian gravity doing?

    Very well indeed, ask any artillerist.

    You do realise that OP made it very clear that there are areas where Newtonian mechanics no longer fit? He did mention Relativity after all.

    So if you are trying to be pedantic, you are merely making yourself look like an idiot. Don't do that. Or do, but then people are not going to take you seriously.

  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday March 23 2014, @01:17PM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Sunday March 23 2014, @01:17PM (#19930) Homepage
    Dark matter has *nothing* to do with relativity. Stop playing in a field you don't understand, you're stepping in all the cowpats.
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