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Bill HaslamWith Tennessee's "monkey bill" still on Governor Bill Haslam's desk, columnists in the state's newspapers continue to criticize the bill and call for a veto. House Bill 368, would, if enacted, encourage teachers to present the "scientific strengths and scientific…
With the addition of Steven Piantadosi on April 6, 2012, NCSE's Project Steve attained its 1200th signatory. A tongue-in-cheek parody of the long-standing creationist tradition of amassing lists of "scientists who doubt evolution" or "scientists who dissent from Darwinism," Project Steve mocks…
A petition urging the veto of House Bill 368, signed by thousands of concerned Tennesseans, was delivered to Governor Bill Haslam's office on April 5, 2012, MSNBC reports (April 5, 2012). Nicknamed the "monkey bill," HB 368 would, if enacted, encourage teachers to present the "scientific strengths…
Americans United for Separation of Church and State is calling on Governor Bill Haslam to veto House Bill 368, according to a post on the organization's Wall of Separation blog (April 5, 2012). If enacted, HB 368 would encourage teachers to present the "scientific strengths and scientific…
In a recent survey, voters overwhelmingly accepted that improving the quality of science education is important to the competitiveness of the United States in the global scene — and a majority agreed that there's a lot of room for improvement. According to a March 30, 2012, press release from…
Lawrence KraussNCSE is delighted to congratulate Lawrence Krauss for receiving the National Science Board's 2012 Public Service Award. "Lawrence Krauss'[s] broad public outreach bridges science and popular culture through various media and intellectual pursuits, and we are proud…
Three of Tennessee's top scientists warn, "the Tennessee legislature is doing the unbelievable: attempting to roll the clock back to 1925 by attempting to insert religious beliefs in the teaching of science." In a column published in the Nashville Tennessean (March 25, 2012), Roger D. Cone, Robert…
(click to embiggen)A Tennesseean Nobel laureate in science, Stanley Cohen, already denounced (PDF) Tennessee's "monkey bills" as promising to "miseducate students, harm the state's national reputation, and weaken its efforts to compete in a science-driven global economy." But what…
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Richard Milner's Charles R. Knight: The Artist Who Saw Through Time (Abrams Books, 2012). The preview consists of passages from Charles R. Knight's autobiography, in which he discusses his visit to the paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope's home — "…