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John M. Lynch is an Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett the Honors College at Arizona State University. He's also affiliated with ASU's Center for Biology & Society. When he's not an historian of anti-evolutionism, he's an evolutionary morphologist. Much to his surprise, in 2007 he was named the Arizona Professor of the Year. No doubt his students were surprised as well.
Category: Science Education
From a report released by BIO: The Biotechnology Industry Organization: On average, only 28% of the high school students taking the ACT , which is a national standardized test for college admission , reached a score indicating college readiness for...
Posted by John Lynch at 2:32 PM • •
Category: Anti-evolution
I spent this morning at a workshop for K-12 biology teachers. The workshop was organized by the School of Life Sciences here at ASU and gave some 20 students to interact with faculty regarding teaching evolution. My presentation was titled...
Posted by John Lynch at 12:06 AM • 1 Comments •
Yet another defeat for the anti-evolutionists. NCSE is reporting that Florida's Senate Bill 2396 has died in committee. To recap: Mississippi - dead in committee Oklahoma - dead in committee Iowa - dead in committee New Mexico - dead in...
Posted by John Lynch at 5:57 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: Anti-evolution
In the past I have argued that historians of science probably need to get more involved with the fight for good science education. Michael Barton has brought my attention to historian Abigail Lustig giving testimony before the Texas Board...
Posted by John Lynch at 11:53 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Politics
The Arizona Education Association is reporting that nearly 4,500 K-12 teachers and other personnel have been pink-slipped for the next school year. What is truly worrying about this is that it is based on reports from only 36 of the...
Posted by John Lynch at 2:27 AM • 11 Comments •
Category: Intelligent Design
SkeptiCamp Phoenix 2009 went off wonderfully yesterday. Big thanks to Jim Lippard for doing such a wonderful organizational job. The picture above is me beginning my 20 minute gallop through the issue of academic freedom and the intelligent design...
Posted by John Lynch at 5:27 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Anti-evolution
The DI-inspired "Academic Freedom/Strengths & Weaknesses" bill that was in committee in New Mexico has failed to get a hearing before close of session and has thus expired. Dave Thomas has more over at PT. The state of play for...
Posted by John Lynch at 2:50 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Anti-evolution
Texas House Bill 4224 (introduced yesterday) attempts to introduce "strengths and weaknesses" language, despite opposition from scientists and educators. More over at NCSE....
Posted by John Lynch at 3:37 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Anti-evolution
Over at PT, Hector Avalos is reporting that the deadline has passed for the DI-inspired "Evolution Academic Freedom Act” (HF 183) to move out of committee in Iowa. This one is now officially dead. Thus the scorecard so far looks...
Posted by John Lynch at 9:43 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Anti-evolution
NCSE is reporting that SB 2396 has been proposed in Florida. It will require "thorough presentation and critical analysis of the scientific theory of evolution." The bill is sponsored by Stephen R. Wise (R-District 5). Amazing how many of these...
Posted by John Lynch at 6:33 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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