Bending the Third Rail
Because We Should, We Can, We Do
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Defending Science
Science in this country is under attack like never before. Find out what you can do to help and sign the petition.
* Official government-run bookstores at the Grand Canyon have carried books promoting as fact the literalist Biblical notion that the Grand Canyon was formed only a few thousand years ago by "Noah's Flood," in direct contradiction to the overwhelming geological evidence and scientific consensus that the Grand Canyon contains rocks that are billions of years old and that the Canyon itself was carved out by a river, over a very long period of time, millions of years ago...THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE.

This is just one example. Funding for HIV research is being cut. Stem cell research is under fire. Scientists who don't have the proper viewpoint are prohibited from sitting on governmental boards.
We have to take our country back from the fundamentalists.
Written at 5:31 AM by Lynne.
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