Ethics

Toiling in the Texas Quote Mines

By Ed Brayton

In the ongoing battle over the science standards in Texas, the creationists on the Texas Board of Education have been doing what creationists always do: working in the quote mines. Longtime Dispatches friend Jeremy Mohn has been doing an excellent job at his Stand Up For Real Science site of documenting the dishonesty.

These were offered by TBOE chairman Don McElroy, a dentist with no training at all in a relevant field of science. He did not look these up himself, of course, he just cribbed them from creationist material. That material, as always, is highly dishonest. A few examples.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on February 05, 2009 (boomark / email).