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Separation of Bush and State
August 4th, 2005 by Andrew
Bush is at it again. Why can’t he just leave things alone that he doesn’t understand? Bush is promoting the teaching of “intelligent design” in public schools. “Intelligent design”, to quote the article, is basically “creationism in a cheap tuxedo.” In other words, he wants to teach the religious belief that some supreme being created […]
Stem Cells Aren’t Evil
July 30th, 2005 by Andrew
Tell me again why we’re not doing more research with stem cells, especially with humans? Oh yeah, cause we have an idiot president who wouldn’t even understand the first word in this article about mending the spinal cords of rats with stem cells. So I guess the small number of existing stem cell lines (just […]
Science Textbooks
May 5th, 2005 by Andrew
So basically, according to this article, science in textbooks has taken a back seat to being politically correct. I hate this kind of stuff. People are so whiny these days. This comes back to the whole “equal” issue. According to textbook makers today, white males aren’t as important to science as women/minorities/the disabled. A quote […]
WGBY’s “Focusing On The Range”
March 4th, 2005 by Andrew
So near the end of December 2004, I sent in a few photos (01, 02, 03, 04) to this organization called The Kestrel Trust. They were looking for photos of the Mount Tom and Mount Holyoke Ranges. I happened to have a few lying around which, in my opinion, were decent photos. I sent them […]
“Teach Evolution: Leave No Child Behind”
February 11th, 2005 by Andrew
So I’m sitting here, checking my mail, and I find an interesting story from space.com in my inbox. It seems that only 55% of the states require the teaching of evolution. Haven’t people realized yet that we evolved from apes? Can’t people put aside their religious fictions and come to an intellectually sound and scientific […]
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