WIRED Science: Reporting From the Front Lines of the Texas Evolution Debate
From the article:
“Thank you to the Board of Education for taking my testimony,” I began. “For the last decade I have worked in the textbook publishing industry: writing, editing and developing curricula for science textbooks. While I am certain of my expertise writing scientific text, I don’t want, nor should you want me to have, the responsibility for writing textbooks containing information that is not scientific fact.”
I concluded with the paragraph that hadn’t fit when I practiced in my kitchen. “I urge you to uphold language that supports the rigorous teaching of evolution to our students. I wouldn’t want students to read fiction in a history book and try to determine which part of their text is historical fact. Why would you want students to read non-scientific ideas in a science book?”