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Uh,oh! Botanists laugh at LA legislators who don't like evolution
Well, it just couldn't be helped. For no particular reasons that TPP can see, a symposium entitled, "Yes, Bobby, Evolution is true" at our annual ongoing botanical meetings in New Orleans attracted some attention: Now why would evolution be controversial? Bobby got an invitation, to attend although his spokesperson said they didn't know about that. But hey, a governor at a botanical meeting - aint' gunna happen. Here's what the Times Picayune had to say. Well, the college student presenter Zach Kopplin, just put up videos of LA legislators in action: defending witch doctors, carping about people with all those little letters after their names (like PhD) telling you what to do, and the like, and yep, a national audience of scientists laughed. Now of course, this is quite unfair. Similar videos of our own state (and federal) legislators in action would also elicit laughter, and are there any that wouldn't? Now what all this was about is a LA law that basically permits teachers to introduce creationism and intelligent design into science classes. The code phrases are "academic freedom" and "critical thinking". In and of themselves these are good things, but when used as a smoke screen for pseudoscience, us professional science educators just can't be quiet. So, yes, Bobby, people from across the nation laughed at you. How's that work for your aspirations on a national level? Still want the GnOPe to stop being the party of stupid? Well, you signed the bill.
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