A Call to Action

The Journal of Clinical Investigation has published an open access article calling all scientists to step up and defend science in American schools. The article focuses mostly on combating the anti-evolution movement, but the themes can be extended to all of science. Apparently the last time the JCI published an article dealing with intelligent design they received quite a few letters asking why a legitimate scientific publication should deal with pseudoscience. This time, the publishers included a pre-emptive statement justifying their actions.

If you care about the state of science education in the United State (or in whatever country you happen to live), do something to combat the anti-science movement -- educate, publicize, and make science accessible. You want to have a good answer when your kids ask you what you did in the War on Evolution.

(Via The Lancelet and The Proper Study of Mankind.)

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