__/ [ Jeffrey Goldberg ] on Thursday 24 August 2006 21:28 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> Evolution Major Vanishes From Approved Federal List
>
>>
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/24/washington/24evo.html?ex=1314072000&en=51fe61534e0cf171&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
>
> I just read that in the paper this morning. I was going to post it, but
> I ended up responding to ItIsDave and you beat me to the punch.
>
>> Is the government pushing an agenda here?
>
> The article says that the Education Department says it was an
> unintentional error, but my guess is that some lower level bureaucrat
> deliberately took it out without official approval. Will the D of Ed.
> investigate?
In efforts to discard the Internet troll <
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll >, unless of course that was
sarcasm, I won't make an in/direct reply to him.
I pretty much doubt this was an error. Here are some links I have been
collecting in the past year:
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/15/1845200&from=rss
Did Humans Evolve? No, Say Americans
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4545822.stm
'Intelligent design' teaching ban
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/22/2310224&tid=129&tid=219
Congress Pays You $3 Billion to Keep Watching TV
,----[ Quote ]
| Felix the Cat writes "After budgets cuts led to the layoff of engineers
| and scientists at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a US Senate committee
| has approved a $3 billion dollar subsidy to assist Americans in their
| difficult transition to digital television in 2009.
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I think that making people less informed is in the interest of the
government.
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