{"id":1281,"date":"2011-03-19T15:40:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T19:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2011-03-19T15:41:01","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T19:41:01","slug":"national-news-keeping-eye-on-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1281","title":{"rendered":"National news keeping eye on Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of national news outlets are taking note of Senator Wise&#8217;s antievolution bill. They&#8217;re both just rewrites of Florida stories, but they are still worth logging in here on the blog. The Huffington Post has a story: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/03\/17\/stephen-wise-non-evolution-schools_n_837130.html\">Florida State Lawmaker Takes Heat For Bill That Would Require Teaching Of &#8216;Non-Evolution&#8217;<\/a>&#8220;. I&#8217;m very glad that the media is taking note of the whole &#8220;non-evolution&#8221; quote from Wise. It really shows just how full of hot air his proposal is. And Mother Jones has a short blurb: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/environment\/2011\/03\/top-florida-lawmaker-resurrects-creationism-bill\">Top Florida Lawmaker Resurrects Creationism Bill<\/a>&#8220;. That&#8217;s another great headline, nailing Wise&#8217;s bill for its creationist roots. I&#8217;m loving it! The National Center for Science Education <a href=\"http:\/\/ncse.com\/news\/2011\/03\/reactions-to-antievolution-bill-florida-006551\">also has a media roundup<\/a>, mentioning Florida articles that can also be found here on this blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of national news outlets are taking note of Senator Wise&#8217;s antievolution bill. They&#8217;re both just rewrites of Florida stories, but they are still worth logging in here on the blog. The Huffington Post has a story: &#8220;Florida State &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1281\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-kF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1267,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1267","url_meta":{"origin":1281,"position":0},"title":"Press Release: 2011 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Critical Analysis\u00e2\u20ac\u009d bill","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"March 13, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Florida Citizens for Science Press Release: \"Critical Analysis\" bill harmful to Florida science education. Florida Citizens for Science opposes Senator Stephen Wise's recently filed bill -- SB 1854, Required Instruction in the Public Schools -- as it is clearly unnecessary, harmful to science education, and sends a negative message to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;\"Critical Analysis\" bills '11&quot;","block_context":{"text":"\"Critical Analysis\" bills '11","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=29"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1270,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1270","url_meta":{"origin":1281,"position":1},"title":"Florida Academy of Sciences opposes Wise&#8217;s bill","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"March 16, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The Florida Academy of Sciences has issued a position statement opposing Senator Stephen Wise's antievolution bill. A pdf of their position statement is here. Some excerpts from the Florida Academy of Sciences' statement: SB 1854, in effect, leaves the door open for the introduction in the public school curriculum of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;\"Critical Analysis\" bills '11&quot;","block_context":{"text":"\"Critical Analysis\" bills '11","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=29"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":941,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=941","url_meta":{"origin":1281,"position":2},"title":"Letter in the Ledger","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"March 10, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Florida Citizens for Science vice president Jonathan Smith had a letter published in the Lakeland Ledger today: Sen. Wise's \"Critical Analysis\" Bill Is Nothing More Than a Shell Game. Are our politicians so naive to think that this bill, should it pass, will not be vigorously challenged and fail, just\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 2 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 2 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=941#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1271,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1271","url_meta":{"origin":1281,"position":3},"title":"Evolution &#8220;caught in the act!&#8221; Quick, notify Senator Wise!","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"March 17, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Florida citizens: You have a mission! Senator Wise is very busy, and so he may not be aware of some rebellious researchers lurking in Gainesville. These lab-coat wearing troublemakers are stomping all over Sen. Wise's turf. They are daring to (gasp) conduct research on (gulp) EVOLUTION! We need to let\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;\"Critical Analysis\" bills '11&quot;","block_context":{"text":"\"Critical Analysis\" bills '11","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=29"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":952,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=952","url_meta":{"origin":1281,"position":4},"title":"No bill movement yet.","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"March 16, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Senator Wise's antievolution bill (SB 2396) had been assigned to the regular K-12 education committee and the appropriations K-12 committee. I've been checking the schedules for these two committees and it looks like 2396 is not on the docket for either committee this week. Good news, but there's still a\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 4 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 4 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=952#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1266,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1266","url_meta":{"origin":1281,"position":5},"title":"Senator Wise and the &#8220;non-evolution&#8221; &#8220;theory of whatever&#8221;","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"March 13, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Tampa Tribune reporter Elaine Silvestrini finally got someone to speak on behalf of the new antievolution bill filed in the state senate (SB 1854): Senator Stephen Wise himself (Story: Legislator's challenge to evolution has some alarmed). 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