In August I posted about Kansas ousting the conservative majority on the school board. You know, the ones that banned the teaching of evolution. Turns out, this week they will "repeal rules backed by social conservatives and switch to science guidelines that embrace Charles Darwin's mainstream theories."
"The current board [is] planning to delete a passage about abuses of science. The wording mentioned the Nazis, forced sterilization and the decades-long Tuskegee syphilis study...Critics claim the board is trying to sanitize the sometimes ugly history of science, while scientists argue the passage was inserted by supporters of 'intelligent design' during the last revision and unfairly targets abuses perceived as linked to evolution."
Of course it all comes down to how it's presented. Is it 50/50 because science has both good and bad parts (see that's fair!) or is it 99/1 because most of science is ethically fair and like anything else, there have been abuses? If added by intelligent designers I have my suspicions.
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