Author Archives: Brandon Haught

About Brandon Haught

Communications Director for Florida Citizens for Science.

Science is science, hopefully

Tampa Bay’s Creative Loafing blog Political Animal has a post up entitled School of thought: Florida schools are ripe for potential church-state violations. Of interest to us is this observation: Science is science. You’d think there wouldn’t be any argument … Continue reading →

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Unintelligent Design

Lynn University in Boca Raton has a series of courses called Dialogues of Learning that tackle the main topic of Belief and Reason. One of the courses offered in the Dialogues series is Unintelligent Design. The course description says: Ever … Continue reading →

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Sidestepping an important question about school vouchers

The Palm Beach Post published a Q & A session with representatives of Step Up for Students about Florida’s Tax Credit Scholarship Program: Accountability next debate for private vouchers I want to emphasize that Florida Citizens for Science as an … Continue reading →

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“Talk Science With Me” event in Gainesville

There is an interesting event happening in Gainesville tonight called Talk Science With Me. Scientists from the University of Florida will be at various locations around town standing by to chat with you and answer your burning science questions. Their … Continue reading →

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Finger licking good

Forbes contributor Peter Reilly went down the Kent “Dr. Dino” Hovind rabbit hole and brought back some gems. He reports that some of those who supported one of my favorite Florida creationists during his legal trials and tribulations are disappointed … Continue reading →

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The conversation about science has started but will it continue?

I encourage you to see for yourself what Mr. Padget and Ms. Stewart had to say about science scores (see my previous post on this). The video from the meeting is available here. Mr. Padget’s comments on science start at … Continue reading →

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Wow. Someone noticed.

I’m genuinely amazed. Someone with some authority took notice of statewide science scores. But will that translate into action? Orlando Sentinel School Zone blog: State board member worries about declining science scores “These are not new tests. They are tests … Continue reading →

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Textbook trouble: history and sex ed

The Lee County school board will hear from concerned citizens this week about the content of history textbooks under consideration for adoption. Board documents show nine objections have been filed for a sixth-grade world history text published by Pearson. Among … Continue reading →

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