{"id":232,"date":"2007-06-25T06:41:53","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T10:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=232"},"modified":"2008-08-04T16:32:37","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T20:32:37","slug":"yecke-information-challenged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"Yecke Information Challenged"},"content":{"rendered":"

— Updated: Story about Yecke in the St. Petersburg Times<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0—<\/p>\n

The following press release has been sent out to Florida media:<\/em><\/p>\n

Internet Company Tries to Sanitize Old Information about Yecke<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Cheri Pierson Yecke, K-12 chancellor for Florida\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Department of Education, has apparently hired a company called ReputationDefender to search the Internet for information about her and, on her behalf, challenge items she disputes. Florida Citizens for Science member Dr. Wesley Elsberry recently received an e-mail from the organization asking him to remove or modify a quote he has on his personal website about Yecke. The quote was taken from a Minnesota newspaper that reported Yecke specifically had included a go-ahead to schools in that state to incorporate \u00e2\u20ac\u0153intelligent design\u00e2\u20ac\u009d into science benchmarks in 2003. Yecke was the Minnesota Commissioner of Education at that time.<\/p>\n

The quote a ReputationDefender representative says Yecke disputes is: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yecke had explained in her advance publicity for the hearings that schools could include the concept of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153intelligent design\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in teaching how the world came to be.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Elsberry reports that the ReputationDefender representative, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Dave S.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, admits Yecke has declined to provide the documents that would demonstrate the truth – or falsity – of her complaint. Elsberry also says that the reporter who wrote the original newspaper story has never received any complaint from Yecke concerning the accuracy of his 3-year-old article.<\/p>\n

During her time in Minnesota, Yecke was entangled in a controversy over the teaching of evolution and supposed alternative theories in public schools when the state was revamping science standards.<\/p>\n

Elsberry is a wildlife biologist who had worked for the National Center for Science Education, and is currently on a one-year leave of absence to be a Visiting Research Associate in the Lyman Briggs School of Science, Michigan State University. Elsberry had helped found Florida Citizens for Science and is still an active member and advisor.<\/p>\n

The original newspaper article is at:
\nhttp:\/\/www.ecm-inc.com\/news\/princeton\/2003\/October\/9standards.html<\/a>
\nElsberry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s web page containing the disputed quote is at:
\nhttp:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/?p=141<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— Updated: Story about Yecke in the St. Petersburg Times.\u00c2\u00a0— The following press release has been sent out to Florida media: Internet Company Tries to Sanitize Old Information about Yecke Dr. Cheri Pierson Yecke, K-12 chancellor for Florida\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Department of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-3K","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":236,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=236","url_meta":{"origin":232,"position":0},"title":"Update to current Yecke controversy","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"July 1, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The following news release was submitted to Florida media. 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