A New Definition of "Creating Controversy"

I got an e-mail the other day about a country where the government claims it knows science better than people who have actually studied it.

Oh, wait, that's Ohio.

The Ohio Board of Education has created a "Controversial Issues Template" for dictating to teachers how they may teach the scientific subjects which the board (if not scientists) consider controversial.

Biologists don't consider evolution controversial. Haven't since the 1870s, in fact. But the Board, they know better.

Same for global climate change, stem cell therapies and anything else they choose to declare "controversial".

I haven't been this glad to not live in Ohio since the Cuyahoga River caught fire.

//The Magic Eight Ball says, "The people of Ohio cleaned up the Cuyahoga River, you know."\\