Ethics

McElroy Endorses Idiotic Anti-Evolution Book

By Ed Brayton

To show you just how ridiculous Texas Board of Education chairman Don McElroy is, take a look at this report from the Texas Freedom Network on a book he recently endorsed.

Is that the sort of message Chairman Don McLeroy and his cohorts on the State Board of Education have in mind for Texas science classrooms if they succeed in their campaign to shoehorn "weaknesses" of evolution back into the science curriculum standards? That's certainly the message of a new book McLeroy is now endorsing.

Dr. McLeroy - noting his position as board chair - recently wrote a glowing recommendation of Sowing Atheism: The National Academy of Sciences' Sinister Scheme to Teach Our Children They're Descended from Reptiles by Robert Bowie Johnson, Jr. (The new book is self-published.)

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 20, 2009 (boomark / email).