Due to pressures from the Discovery Institute (I.E. creationist propagandists — look them up) the only choices considered were a textbook that flaunts “Intelligent Design” and one that is merely tainted by a watering-down of its coverage of evolution. Fantastic.
Broward selects biology text with watered-down passages on evolution: South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Previous editions of [...]

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A former oral surgeon and his pals were stealing organs from cadavers without consent and selling them for transplant. This is another argument in favor of tissue engineering research — the market really wants more transplant tissue.
D.A.: Body parts case like ‘cheap horror movie’ - More Health News - MSNBC.com
Prosecutors said the defendants [...]

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This is a synthesis of two recent Mardi-Gras-related posts from my LiveJournal (my personal journal). The first was relatively popular as my LJ posts go.

Happy Mardi Gras
Ahh, even with everything all messed up post-katrina, sometimes I really love this city. Yesterday evening when I was out for my run, I passed some guys in [...]

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It appears the problem of Creationism in Academia is not constrained to the US. Several stories dropped into my feed reader this morning:
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Academics fight rise of creationism at universities
A growing number of science students on British campuses and in sixth form colleges are challenging the theory of [...]

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So-called “Social Scientists” are doing it as well:
Talk Reason: arguments against creationism, intelligent design, and religious apologetics
“If a theory ‘forced’ one to assent to politically distasteful, depressing, and counterintuitive claims, then one could regard those consequences as in themselves good reasons to find the theory implausible,” says feminist philosopher Sandra Harding;
If we don’t [...]

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