Author Archives: Brandon Haught

About Brandon Haught

Communications Director for Florida Citizens for Science.

We lost a friend

Posted on May 2, 2016 by Brandon Haught

There is some very sad news from over the weekend. Sir Harry Kroto, Nobel Prize winning chemist teaching at Florida State University, passed away Saturday. He was a great friend to us here at Florida Citizens for Science. During the … Continue reading →

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He’s itching for a fight

Posted on April 25, 2016 by Brandon Haught

Andrew Scholberg, a freelance writer and member of St. Augustine Catholic Church in Gainesville, wrote a guest column for the Gainesville Sun entitled Gainesville’s evolution vs. creation saga. In it he laments the absence of any good evolution vs. creationism … Continue reading →

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Session over; Instructional Materials bills dead

Posted on March 13, 2016 by Brandon Haught

The Florida legislative session is mercifully over and the instructional materials bills we’ve been tracking are history. These ill-conceived bills would have changed the way textbooks and other educational tools are reviewed and selected, handing entirely too much power to … Continue reading →

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You can’t have it both ways

Posted on February 18, 2016 by Brandon Haught

I have genuine difficulty understanding a person who looks down on science and yet has no problem benefiting from it. A letter-to-the-editor writer in today’s Daytona Beach News-Journal did exactly that – denigrate science while praising its products – in … Continue reading →

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Instructional Materials Bills Update

Posted on February 14, 2016 by Brandon Haught

My column was published in the Community Voices section of today’s Daytona Beach News Journal: Don’t mix science, religion in public schools. It’s a rebuttal to a previous column written by a Flagler County school board member. She supported the … Continue reading →

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Yet another piece siding with the bad bills appears

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Brandon Haught

You’ve got to hand it to the gang supporting those horrible instructional materials bills. They have influential friends and they’re not afraid to use them. Flagler School Board member Janet McDonald wrote a lengthy Community Voices piece in the Daytona … Continue reading →

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A columnist in their corner

Posted on February 2, 2016 by Brandon Haught

The group behind the two very bad “instructional materials” bills currently languishing in the state legislature apparently has a newspaper columnist in their corner. I don’t believe I’ve read Brent Batten’s work before in the Naple Daily News but I’m … Continue reading →

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They’re not dead yet & Getting the word out there

Posted on February 1, 2016 by Brandon Haught

In my previous post I said that the “instructional materials” bills in the state legislature don’t look like they’re going anywhere. But I also said that they can’t be considered dead yet. I was right: ‘No bill is dead’ in Florida … Continue reading →

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