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Ed Brayton is a journalist, commentator and speaker. He is the co-founder and president of Michigan Citizens for Science and co-founder of The Panda's Thumb. He has written for such publications as The Bard, Skeptic and Reports of the National Center for Science Education, spoken in front of many organizations and conferences, and appeared on nationally syndicated radio shows and on C-SPAN. Ed is also a Fellow with the Center for Independent Media and the host of Declaring Independence, a one hour weekly political talk show on WPRR in Grand Rapids, Michigan.(static)

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Michigan Bills:

Major Victory in Michigan

Category: Michigan Bills

Michigan Citizens for Science (MCFS) is happy to announce that we won a major victory with the State Board of Education on Tuesday. Having failed to have pro-ID language included in a bill earlier this year to harmonize the educational...

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Posted by Ed Brayton at 4:41 PM • 4 Comments •

MCFS Press Release

Category: Michigan Bills

I just sent a press release to our media contacts around the state of Michigan concerning the DeVos campaign and their false claims of being misrepresented. You can read that press release here....

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Posted by Ed Brayton at 2:06 PM • 5 Comments •

DeVos and Intelligent Design

Category: Michigan Bills

Dick DeVos, the Republican candidate for governor in Michigan, has confirmed what we already knew from the report of one of our MCFS members in a letter to the editor last week, that he advocates teaching ID in public school...

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Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:40 AM • 14 Comments •

ID Legislation in Michigan

Category: Michigan Bills

We've got a sudden rash of ID activity here in Michigan. The MCFS board got word yesterday that the House Education Committee in Michigan was going to hold a hearing this morning on HB 5251, a bill that would require...

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Posted by Ed Brayton at 4:32 PM • 21 Comments •

Update on the Michigan Bill

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Or bills, in this case. It turns out that there are now two bills in the state legislature - HB 5606, sponsored by Rep. Palmer, which contains the "arguments for and against" language that will inevitably open the door to...

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Posted by Ed Brayton at 8:11 PM • 2 Comments •

Luskin on Michigan Education Bill

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Somehow I missed this from several days ago. Casey Luskin has a post on the DI blog about the Michigan bill that is rather amusing and highly inaccurate. His rhetorical device of choice these days is the notion of "false...

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Posted by Ed Brayton at 10:02 AM • 24 Comments •

New Michigan Science Bill

Category: Michigan Bills

We have a new bill here in Michigan that contains language that sounds very objective and unconnected to ID, but that will obviously pave the way for the introduction of ID (or at least common ID arguments) into science classrooms....

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Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:04 PM • 10 Comments • 1 TrackBacks