Worrying
40 or more schools teaching bullshit in science classes* via the New Humanist blog.
That's quite a bit more than I expected to be perfectly honest.
*I mean in a really bad way. They teach creationism to the exclusion of evolution. "Teaching the controversy" is bad enough outside a sociological context (in other words, teaching that there are people out there outside the scientific community who want to start an argument is ok, teaching that there is a scientific debate is not, because there isn't one), but teaching creationism and failing to teach evolution is simply denying children a basic education.
That's quite a bit more than I expected to be perfectly honest.
*I mean in a really bad way. They teach creationism to the exclusion of evolution. "Teaching the controversy" is bad enough outside a sociological context (in other words, teaching that there are people out there outside the scientific community who want to start an argument is ok, teaching that there is a scientific debate is not, because there isn't one), but teaching creationism and failing to teach evolution is simply denying children a basic education.