{"id":661,"date":"2008-07-24T10:18:31","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T14:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=661"},"modified":"2008-08-30T10:20:15","modified_gmt":"2008-08-30T14:20:15","slug":"oh-the-webs-they-weave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=661","title":{"rendered":"Oh the webs they weave"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Louisiana Coalition for Science demonstrates how those duplicitous “Family” organizations just can’t keep their stories straight<\/a>, especially when the Discovery Institute is involved, too. The cracks in the “oh, but it’s not about religion … it’s about critical thinking” facade concerning the deceptively-named academic freedom bills had started to show right here in Florida (FCS documented it here<\/a>.) That was just the beginning, though, as the Louisiana folks have discovered.<\/p>\n

The discrepancies in the public statements of the proponents of this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153academic freedom\u00e2\u20ac\u009d legislation highlight once again the dishonesty that is inherent to the promotion of creationism as merely \u00e2\u20ac\u0153good science\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153critical thinking.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Clearly, the bill\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s promoters themselves need a crash course in critical thinking, not to mention ethics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Louisiana Coalition for Science demonstrates how those duplicitous “Family” organizations just can’t keep their stories straight, especially when the Discovery Institute is involved, too. The cracks in the “oh, but it’s not about religion … it’s about critical thinking” … 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":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-aF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":868,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=868","url_meta":{"origin":661,"position":0},"title":"Louisiana goes down the rabbit hole","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"January 17, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Want to know where those horrible, deceptively-named \"academic freedom\" bills will take a state? 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