With the seeming onslaught of attacks on reality coming from all over the country, I hate to add to the bad news... but I will because the bad news shows just how silly antiscience legislators can be, and there's also some good news to go along with it. So that's nice. And I'll end with an article that shows us why those of us in the reality-based community have such a hard time pushing back against nonsense.
The Good: A couple of years ago Louisiana passed a law designed to destroy good science, allowing teachers to use creationist materials in the classroom
, despite this being a clear violation of the US Constitution. So why is this good news? Because a bill has been filed to repeal that awful law
. Even cooler, this bill came about because of efforts by a high school student in Baton Rouge named Zack ...
