Mesa County Teachers Petitioned To Stop Teaching Global Warming, Other 'Personal' Views

If the fundamentalist religious folks have their way, we are going to enter a new "Dark Ages" -- then again, with the current state of scientific knowledge by the general public, perhaps we already are in a new "Dark Ages".

There is too much general stupidity and magical thinking in the world.

This from The Huffington Post -- by way of "Some Assembly Required"



"Mesa County Teachers Petitioned To Stop Teaching Global Warming, Other 'Personal' Views


An organization called Balanced Education for Everyone has gathered hundreds of signatures in support of a movement to ban the teaching of global warming in classrooms in Mesa County.

The signatures were presented at District 51's school board meeting Tuesday night by 40 people who dismissed global warming as "junk science." The petition is aimed at preventing teachers from imparting their "personal, political views in the classroom," Rose Pugliese, author of the petition, told the Grand Junction Sentinel.

Pugliese, who is described by the Denver Post as an "activist in Tea Party and conservative Republican groups," insists that there is "no evidence" to support global warming. Supporters of the petition say that, if global warming continues to be taught, "the other side" of the global warming issue should be presented as well.

The National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council--in a 2008 joint study--found that "the scientific understanding of climate change is now sufficiently clear to begin taking steps to prepare for climate change and to slow it."

School board members accepted the petition, but took no action. Proponents of the measure promised to check back at a later date, and threatened that failure to act on the petition would result in consequences at the next school board election."


This now joins the actions against evolution, vaccine use, and every other crackpot, "teabagger", anti-fact, "it's true BECAUSE I say so" idea around. If you indict the anti-science teabaggers, right-wing-crazies, and fundamentalists, you must also include the new age sorts -- those who delve in "auras", etc., etc., etc.

As an oldster who had measles, whooping cough, mumps, "german" measles, and damn near every other childhood disease around -- after having lost almost a full school year because of these diseases -- I do not think the folks of childbearing age these days quite understand how serious they can be. They were lucky enough to be around in the age when vaccines were available Survival was NOT assured when children were set upon by these diseases.

Heck, when I had all these diseases, antibiotics were not readily available. This was the tail end of WWII and just after.

So, now they just want to DENY what has become established scientific fact -- how absurdly selfish can these people be?

"It's for the children" has to join "The check's in the mail" and other such statements as among the worlds biggest lies. Most of these folks don't seem to be willing to give up anything "for the children".

I suspect they really do not LIKE children -- heck, the way they support beating them into submission proves that.