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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY SECRETARY March 8, 2004 By facsimile (406-444-2893) and US Mail Ms. Linda McCullochSuperintendent of Public InstructionMontana Office of Public InstructionPost Office Box 202501Helena, Montana 59620-2501 Dear Superintendent McCulloch: Thank you for your recent letter to Secretary Paige regarding your question about high school science curriculum and differing scientific viewpoints under the Read More ›

On Tuesday, the Ohio Board of Education will vote on final adoption of a model science curriculum that includes a lesson plan on the “critical analysis of evolution.” The lesson plan is intended to implement Benchmark H of Ohio’s science standards, which requires students to know “how scientists continue to investigate and critically analyze aspects of evolutionary theory.” But now Read More ›

“There are two political parties in America, the stupid party and the evil party,” goes the old adage. This is about the stupid party — the Republican Party. The majority of Americans consistently tell pollsters they prefer lower taxes and less government spending. More Republicans than Democrats consistently say they believe in smaller government and lower taxes. Given these statements Read More ›

Rare it is in politics and life to get a second chance at a huge opportunity. But by reversing a catastrophic decision of the Federal Communications Commission that has paralyzed America’s telecom industry, a U.S. court has given the Bush administration a new chance to escape the blame for killing broadband in the U.S. Granting the FCC only 60 days Read More ›

Today the U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, largely vacated the local network unbundling rules adopted August 2003 in the Federal Communications Commission’s so-called Triennial Review Order, but upheld key parts of the FCC’s order eliminating requirements that local telephone companies (i.e., Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers-ILECs) share with Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs) new fiber-optic and hybrid (i.e., Read More ›

BioEvolutionHow Biotechnology Is Changing Our Worldby Michael FumentoEncounter, 486 pp., $28.95 WHAT WE HAVE NEEDED for a long time is a biotechnology advocate to write a book promoting the virtues of the emerging science, without falling into the trap of demonizing biotech-critics and skeptics as so many latter day Luddites who would return us to the bad old days of Read More ›

SEATTLE, March 1 — Groups in Ohio trying to censor a proposed lesson plan on the “Critical Analysis of Evolution” are now making bogus legal threats rather than scientific arguments, according to legal experts at the Discovery Institute. On Feb. 23, the head of the Ohio Academy of Science told Ohio Gov. Bob Taft that the proposed lesson plan was Read More ›

“We should reject, as a matter of principle, the substitution of intelligent design for the dialogue of chance and necessity; but we must concede that there are presently no detailed Darwinian accounts of the evolution of any biochemical system, only a variety of wishful speculations.” So lamented Colorado State University biochemist Franklin Harold in “The Way of the Cell” (Oxford Read More ›

SEATTLE, FEB. 26 — Ohio’s pro-Darwin groups have enlisted the help of a professor known for his “far out” legal views in their effort to censor a proposed science lesson on evolution. Earlier this week the Ohio Academy of Sciences (OAS) cited Florida State University law professor Steven Gey as the authority for its claim that the “Critical Analysis of Read More ›

Ohio Academy of Sciences Criticized for Scare Tactics on Evolution SEATTLE, FEB. 24 — The leadership of the Ohio Academy of Sciences (OAS) was sharply criticized today by Discovery Institute for trying to censor Ohio’s new science curriculum on evolution through a campaign of fear and innuendo. “The OAS leadership’s scare campaign is more science fiction than science,” said Bruce Chapman, Read More ›