So, you may recall that President Bush says that we should teach egregiously false information to our students alongside of proven science. Then, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist jumps in, courageously stomping to death any remaining credibility he has as a man with a science background, by saying that
I think today a pluralistic society should have access to a broad range of fact, of science, including faith...
His quotation is wonderful, in a way. Who could disagree with what he said? Except that he is arguing that we should teach Intelligent Design in schools. Of course, to his credit, he didn' t include in his statement "grotesquely wrong ideas that will set our children so far behind in education versus other countries that we might as well just make a giant bonfire in the middle of the country -- say, in Kansas -- and throw all our science textbooks ...
