To bad the Louisiana legislature doesn’t encourage mere thinking.
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Darwin Defeated in the Bayou: Louisiana Encourages ‘Critical Thinking’ About Evolution
The Louisiana House voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bill on Wednesday that would promote “critical thinking” by students on topics such as evolution, the origins of life, global warming, and human cloning. The Louisiana Senate already passed a similar bill.
Similar bills have been introduced in several states over the past year and have been supported by opponents of evolution. The Discovery Institute, which promotes a brand of creationism known as intelligent design, hailed the 94-to-3 vote on the bill.
The Louisiana Coalition for Science opposes the bill, which it says “will open the door for creationism in public schools.”
University professors in several states have organized against such bills, many of which are based on a model created by the Discovery Institute. —Richard Monastersky
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Ah yes, the old Orwellian tactic- call conservative repression “critical thought” so that centrist liberals can’t help but support “critical thinking” and “both sides of the issue.”
What’s next, considering the merits of concentration camps and slavery so as not to be “unfair” to the other side?