Bush weighs in

[David Gould]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4136690.stm

What power does the presidential office have over the schooling system? Don't the states get a lot of education funding from the federal government?

 

[leccy]

From the Beeb article, referring to Intelligent Design

Many scientists insist, though, it is just that - a theory.

 

[random_guy]

Bush really has no power in this issue. In fact, he even said that he's for the local governments to decide what to teach, not that they'll make the right choice. The only reason why he said that was to appeal to the religious right.

 

[Douglaangu v2.0]

The only reason why he said that was to appeal to the religious right.

Dontcha know, they're been persecuted by dem dere egghead scientists in the class rooms.
If he doesn't look after them who will?

 

[Mistermystery]

4 threads are on this subject, we really don't need an other one.

 

[ebia]

From the Beeb article, referring to Intelligent Design

Science has never been the beeb's strongest suit, has it?

 

[Elduran]

Science has never been the beeb's strongest suit, has it?

Evidently not....

I'm quite tempted to send them an e-mail pointing out all the problems with that article

 

[leccy]

Science has never been the beeb's strongest suit, has it?

Au contraire, many excellent science programmes have been produced by the BBC, with considerable input by real scientists. The BBC science department does a lot to bring science to the general public in an understandable manner.

Unfortunatley that quite often doesn't seem to stretch to the news departments which are presumably mostly inhabited by arts and humanities graduates, whose closest brush with "science" might have been Political Science.

 

[Oonna]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4136690.stm

What power does the presidential office have over the schooling system? Don't the states get a lot of education funding from the federal government?

America is going backwards so fast im getting a crick in my neck from looking over my shoulders so often.

 

[Elduran]

Au contraire, many excellent science programmes have been produced by the BBC, with considerable input by real scientists. The BBC science department does a lot to bring science to the general public in an understandable manner.

Unfortunatley that quite often doesn't seem to stretch to the news departments which are presumably mostly inhabited by arts and humanities graduates, whose closest brush with "science" might have been Political Science.

The BBC funded scientific shows are very good, but that article certainly wasn't an example of that. I believe that the investigative reporting in this instance was probably from a political correspondant rather than a science one, which would explain a few things...

 

[Talcos Stormweaver]

What power does the presidential office have over the schooling system? Don't the states get a lot of education funding from the federal government?

In theory, yes. In practice, however, the president has a lot of ways by which he could control such things that normally the states have the power over (encouraging the passing of laws to favor a particular outcome in an event, influencing those who are in the position to make those kinds of decisions, etc...). Take President Bush's stance on the 'sanctity of marriage'.

 

[Illuminatus]

Science has never been the beeb's strongest suit, has it?

Or Shrub's, for that matter.