All the cool kids are doing it
By "cool kids", of course, I mean "British science bloggers" and by "doing it" I mean "writing to their MPs about Tripe in Science". I am, of course, stretching these definitions to an extent similar to my trousers after five pies at Thanksgiving - but that's nothing compared to creationists calling themselves "Truth in Science".
I wrote:
Dear My MP,
I'm a constituent of yours and a genetics researcher at Thighmarcester University. My last job was in the Southern US, where many of our incoming undergraduates had been disadvantaged by inaccurate, religiously biased science teaching.
For this reason I am particularly concerned about recent news stories reporting the teaching of creationism in British schools (such as is encouraged by the ironically-named religious pressure group "Truth in Science").
I would be interested to know your views on this and whether you would be prepared to sign EDM 2708: "That this House shares the concerns of the British Centre for Science Education that the literature being sent to every school in the United Kingdom by the creationist religious group Truth in Science is full of scientific mistakes and fails to disclose the group's creationist beliefs and objectives; and urges all schools to treat this literature with extreme caution."
Yours sincerely,
Dr Laetitia Prism
I'll keep you posted.
I wrote:
Dear My MP,
I'm a constituent of yours and a genetics researcher at Thighmarcester University. My last job was in the Southern US, where many of our incoming undergraduates had been disadvantaged by inaccurate, religiously biased science teaching.
For this reason I am particularly concerned about recent news stories reporting the teaching of creationism in British schools (such as is encouraged by the ironically-named religious pressure group "Truth in Science").
I would be interested to know your views on this and whether you would be prepared to sign EDM 2708: "That this House shares the concerns of the British Centre for Science Education that the literature being sent to every school in the United Kingdom by the creationist religious group Truth in Science is full of scientific mistakes and fails to disclose the group's creationist beliefs and objectives; and urges all schools to treat this literature with extreme caution."
Yours sincerely,
Dr Laetitia Prism
I'll keep you posted.
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posted by MissPrism at 5:37 AM
15 Comments:
Hurrah! Stop waiting in the vestry and join us...
Actually, the BCSE also seem a bit bonkers, but at least their heads aren't completely up their own bottoms...
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Hurrah!
*claps*
*hops*
*falls over*
*blushes*
Wow. You delete comments? I'm going to behave myself on here...
No, whoever posted that deleted it! I delete spam when I get it, but that isn't very often.
I like calling them "Tripe in science". I personally call them "truthiness in science" but thats probably a bit too much of an in joke.
Good to see you writing, and its a nice letter. Next you'll be campaigning for more post docs to be available to help teh country in its march to the future.
damn, keep forgetting my name. Anonymous above is:
guthrie
(I've already got a livejournal, I dont need a blogger account as well....)
The more the merrier I say.
BCSE seem to be a bit of a single issue organisation, but bonkers? Still, if so maybe we can have our own "I art more rational than though" quasi- religious war over this side of the pond.
Sorry, 'bonkers' is a bit vague, so to clear things up I'm about to make myself sound like a prat...
I completely agree with and support what the BCSE are doing, but sometimes I feel a bit exhausted when I read the stuff on their website, which comes out in a bit of a rush. So they're bonkers in the same way that, say, my old dog used to be; fun in short bursts, but you'd have a coronary if you tried to keep up with her.
That's all I meant by it!
Come join "Science, just science" instead!
We're quite nice, not as long term dedicated in your face the way the BCSE is.
http://www.justscience.org.uk/tikiwiki-1.9.5/tiki-forums.php
We're just another bunch of amaterus, Roger Stanyard pops in sometimes, Dean Morrison was involved at the beggining, but I think he has wandered off somewhere.
guthrie
In similar news from the Southern US: I just had my day ruined by a student's paper on representations of homosexuals in the media. Well, that's what the proposal was. The paper was actually full of horribly constructed sentences, spelling errors, rhetoric that makes absolutely no sense, poor citations, grammatical mistakes and claims like "teh geys are in ur adoption systemz stealin ur strait babies."
I've been angry all day. Who can I write a letter to?
Thighmaster university?
Where can I sign up?
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