republican commitment to science

The Republican Commitment to Science

With Boehner elected as new House Majority Leader, U.S. science just

took another Republican hit (italics mine):

In 2001, the ID creationist leader Phillip Johnson helped craft

language for an anti-evolution resolution to be inserted in a

federal education reform bill in an attempt to give local

anti-evolution activists another tool. Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA)

sponsored the language in a non-binding "sense of the Senate"

resolution. The resolution declared that, "where biological

evolution is taught, the curriculum should help students to

understand why this subject generates so much continuing

controversy, and should prepare the students to be informed

participants in public discussions regarding the subject." Though

Sen. Santorum claimed that the amendment did not "not try to

dictate curriculum to anybody," more than 80 science groups decried

the anti-evolution agenda behind the resolution...

Some have sought to give the Santorum language the force of law

despite the fact that the language was part of a non-binding

resolution and was relegated to a report that was not officially

part of the final legislation. Reps. John A. Boehner and Steve

Chabot, both Ohio Republicans, invoked the Santorum language in a

letter to the Ohio school board suggesting that references to ID

should be included in the state's science standards.

All the Republicans do is talk about science. Like their icon used to