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Here's a piece of the back-story I never heard about (from the same article): quote: The debate has branched off into history, with the current board planning to delete a passage about abuses of science.
The wording mentioned the Nazis, forced sterilization and the decades-long Tuskegee syphilis study, in which public health officials falsely told poor, black men with the disease that they were being treated for it.
Critics claim the board is trying to sanitize the sometimes ugly history of science, while scientists argue the passage was inserted by supporters of "intelligent design" during the last revision and unfairly targets abuses perceived as linked to evolution.
Yes, I always try to link my opponents to Nazis -- an effective rhetorical technique in any context.  |
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