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South Korea Surrenders To Creationist Demands On Evolution Textbooks

Posted by timothy on from the this-from-that-or-maybe-not dept.

Med-trump writes "A petition to remove references to evolution from high-school textbooks claimed victory in South Korea last month after the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST) revealed that many of the publishers would produce revised editions that exclude examples of the evolution of the horse or of avian ancestor Archaeopteryx."

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  1. This from the country that brought us "fan death" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    From the wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death): "Fan death is a widely held belief in South Korea that an electric fan left running overnight in a closed room can cause the death of those inside". This was even reported by the Korea Consumer Protection Board (KCPB), a South Korean government-funded public agency, though outside South Korea it is generally considered a classic case of mass hysteria.
    I think a certain country could use a more rigorous scientific curriculum.