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Planning a symposium in Louisiana
Next summer the botanical meetings will be held in New Orleans, and TPP is looking forward to the food and music, oh, and the botany. Good planning, go to Louisiana in the summer, but probably that's when academic types, especially students, can better afford it with off-season rates. So some of us been thinking, how about a symposium on evolution titled "Yes, Bobby (Jindal), evolution is real". It's hard to believe Jindal falls for the "it's just a theory" line; it's easier to believe he that he would play religious conservatives for political reasons, but why not take him to task? So we can have some fun with this. Maybe we invite Dr. Donald Aguillard to speak. He's the superintendent of the St. Mary Parish School District, but if his name sounds familiar it's because he was the lead plaintiff in the Edwards v. Aguillard Supreme Court Case in 1987 that ruled the teaching of creationism in public school science classes is unconstitutional. Jindal has made news by giving vouchers, public money, to private religious schools who are under no such prohibition. They can teach all the anti-science stuff they want. So maybe the botanists get a bit uppity for a change. If you want to know what botanists think about all this, here's the link to the Botanical Society's statement on evolution, which is pretty good even if TPP was the primary author.
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