While not true of the UK cirriculum as a whole I'm still disturbed that it's true for even one school. Will they next cut evolution to avoid conflict with creationist teachings?
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This happens already all across the US. Although the biology textbooks are truly excellent on the subject, most teachers avoid the chapters on Evolution so as to avoid run-ins with parents.
This is aggravated by the fact that a large number of kids of fundamentalist parents send the kids to
summer camp, where part of the program involves instructing kids on how to challenge the teachers in public schools on the subject of Evolution.
In other "denialism" news, the
Discovery Institute, who is the heavily funded right wing "belief tank", that brought you Intelligent Design has a new strategy for fighting Evolution in the public schools. Having failed at every turn to create a Supreme Court proof strategy to introduce Creationism into the classroom, they have just begun to give
lectures across the country persuading people that "Darwinism" is directy responsible for the Holocaust and for the practices of Eugenics in other countries.
The odd thing about the strategy is that much of their base of tin-foil-hat wearing right wingers are also Holocaust deniers. So notice in this blog article that the DI's speeches talk about the "hundreds of thousands of social undesirables" who were killed in the Holocaust. They just can't bring themselves to quote the actual figures of six million, and neither can they bring themselves to say the "J" word.
Methinks they are finally getting desparate. Their tin-foil hats are starting to show.
Lest you think this is all harmless pageantry, at any one time in at least 10 states there are bills being proposed constantly to the state legislatures which try in one way or another to alter the science curriculum in public schools. These bills are all offered by right wing republicans and are all worded pretty much the same, that wording having come from the Discovery Institute.
The barrage is constant and relentless. DI is still heavily funded and all of their funding goes directly into PR and lobbying.
