{"id":1093,"date":"2009-07-14T22:05:54","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T02:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2009-07-14T22:05:54","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T02:05:54","slug":"grossly-misleading-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1093","title":{"rendered":"Grossly misleading story"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Fox News station in Tampa probably meant well, but they went about doing this story<\/a> about the Controversial Issues Workshop going on this week<\/a> all wrong. I mean really wrong.<\/p>\n

Florida science teaching standards didn’t allow the word “evolution” to be used.<\/p>\n

Instead teachers had to say the phrase, “biological change over time.”<\/p>\n

But that’s about to change.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the journalism school that’s called an error in fact and would get serious points taken off of the student’s work. Teachers were certainly allowed to say evolution. It’s just that the standards didn’t use the word and didn’t emphasis the concept. The new state science standards now make evolution one of the “big ideas” in biology.<\/p>\n

Once the story moves on past that horribly misleading opening the rest of it is OK. There were a lot of positive comments and no stupid false “balance.” The story even goes so far as to state as fact:<\/p>\n

Subjects that are not science, like creationism, will not be taught in schools.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Outstanding!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Fox News station in Tampa probably meant well, but they went about doing this story about the Controversial Issues Workshop going on this week all wrong. I mean really wrong. 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