Ethics

Education Week on "Academic Freedom" Bills

By Ed Brayton

Education Week has an article about the gaggle of "academic freedom" bills popping up in state legislatures around the country, all of them based on model legislation written by the Discovery Institute. The article includes this quote from Rep. John Moolenaar, sponsor of Michigan's version of the bill:

"Science moves forward when students and researchers are allowed to critically examine theories and the evidence that supports or does not support them," said state Rep. John Moolenaar, a Michigan Republican and the sponsor of one such bill. His proposal, he said, "will encourage educators to promote a healthy scientific debate."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 19, 2008 (boomark / email).