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Josh Rosenau, of the National Center for Science Education, has a piece in Seed online:

The National Center for Science Education, in Oakland, CA, where I work, has tracked hundreds of attacks on evolution education in 48 states in the last five years. In the last two years alone, 18 bills in 10 states have targeted the teaching of evolution. These bills, like the flawed science standards approved by the Texas Board of Education in March, don't ban evolution outright. But they do authorize teachers to omit evolution or include creationism at their whim. "These bills give cover to school boards and teachers who want to teach creationism," says Barbara Forrest, a professor at Southeastern Louisiana University who studies the history of creationism. "It's as simple as that."

Read it here.

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