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New Mexico Bill To Protect Anti-Science Education
An anonymous reader writes "From the Wired article: 'If educators in New Mexico want to teach evolution or climate change as a "controversial scientific topic," a new bill seeks to protect them from punishment. House Bill 302, as it's called, states that public school teachers who want to teach "scientific weaknesses" about "controversial scientific topics" including evolution, climate change, human cloning and — ambiguously — "other scientific topics" may do so without fear of reprimand. The legislation was introduced to the New Mexico House of Representatives on Feb. 1 by Republican Rep. Thomas A. Anderson. Supporters of science education say this and other bills are designed to spook teachers who want to teach legitimate science and protect other teachers who may already be customizing their curricula with anti-science lesson plans.'"
As with climate change, the few real scientists who are skeptical seem to be from fields which have nothing whatsoever to do with the topic at hand.
Indeed. Most of the scientists working in 'climate science' seem to deny that the climate changes naturally and blame any change on humans.
But I've never met anyone who's skeptical about climate change; only people who deny that the climate changes naturally (e.g. the infamous 'hockey stick' where the temperature was supposedly flat for centuries until the industrial revolution) and people who believe it does... given that we have records of climate change going back millions of years I can't see how anyone could possibly be skeptical about it.