{"id":701,"date":"2008-09-01T21:18:40","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T01:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=701"},"modified":"2008-10-31T16:10:32","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T20:10:32","slug":"so-called-academic-freedom-in-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=701","title":{"rendered":"So-called academic freedom in La."},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is a good story <\/a>showing how the fight over the deceptively-named academic freedom bill in Louisiana went. Despite the solid support from the experts for real science, the bills breezed right on through anyway. The following is the frightening stuff to me since it has implication for us here in Florida.<\/p>\n

The law was carefully stage-managed. At the Senate and House committee hearings, the room was filled with Religious Right activists. Proponents included a group of home-schooled students, who will not even be affected by the law.<\/p>\n

“They see all those people there and all they see are votes,” said Forrest, who serves on the Americans United Board of Trustees. “The LFF [Louisiana Family Forum] has been lobbying the legislature for nine years laying this groundwork. They have been waiting for a number of factors to come together — now the legislature as a whole is conservative and we have a governor who favors creationism.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is a good story showing how the fight over the deceptively-named academic freedom bill in Louisiana went. Despite the solid support from the experts for real science, the bills breezed right on through anyway. The following is the frightening … 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-bj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":868,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=868","url_meta":{"origin":701,"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? Have a look at Louisiana. Last year, Louisiana passed the Louisiana Science Education Act, a law that many scientists and educators said was a thinly veiled attempt to allow creationism and its variants into the science\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 7 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 7 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=868#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":825,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=825","url_meta":{"origin":701,"position":1},"title":"Scientific American","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"December 15, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Wow, Scientific American's January issue is awesome. It's an issue devoted to evolution. One of the several articles in there is The Latest Face of Creationism in the Classroom. Florida gets a number of mentions in there. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Academic freedom\u00e2\u20ac\u009d was the creationist catchphrase of choice in 2008: the Louisiana Science\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 8 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 8 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=825#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":607,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=607","url_meta":{"origin":701,"position":2},"title":"Louisiana","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"June 12, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I would like to draw your attention to the Louisiana Coalition for Science. Barbara Forrest is working hard to put out the \"academic freedom\" fire there. Here is a good TV debate she had with her local creationist critters. Throw some support Barbara's way!","rel":"","context":"With 3 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 3 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=607#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":661,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=661","url_meta":{"origin":701,"position":3},"title":"Oh the webs they weave","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"July 24, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"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\" facade concerning the deceptively-named academic freedom bills had started to\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 40 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 40 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=661#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":573,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=573","url_meta":{"origin":701,"position":4},"title":"Last day","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"May 2, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The last day of the legislative session is here. Will the deceptively named \"academic freedom\" bills experience a miracle and gain passage? Or will they fizzle and die? Keep an eye on the Senate bill page throughout the day. While you're waiting for the end result, read this article in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "\"Academic Freedom\" bills '08"","block_context":{"text":"\"Academic Freedom\" bills '08","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=23"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":550,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=550","url_meta":{"origin":701,"position":5},"title":"A brand new twist","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"April 17, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"(Update: The Gradebook blog has a better explanation of what is going on. Essentially, this is a proposed amendment that's not likely to get any traction.) ALERT: The deceptively-named \"academic freedom\" bill in the Senate has taken one hell of a new twist. 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