Here in the great state of Misery, we have a one woman assault on biology going on. State Rep Cynthia Davis made the New York Times the other day for sponsoring two bills:
State Representative Cynthia Davis of Missouri prefiled two bills for the next session of the Legislature that she said “reflect what people want.” One would remove the state’s requirement that all forms of contraception and their potential health effects be taught in schools, leaving the focus on abstinence. Another would require publishers that sell biology textbooks to Missouri to include at least one chapter with alternative theories to evolution.
“These are common-sense, grass-roots ideas from the people I represent, and I’d be very surprised if a majority of legislators didn’t feel they were the right solutions to these problems,” Ms. Davis said.
“It’s like when the hijackers took over those four planes on Sept. 11 and took people to a place where they didn’t want to go,” she added. “I think a lot of people feel that liberals have taken our country somewhere we don’t want to go. I think a lot more people realize this is our country and we’re going to take it back.”
The hysterical back story to this is the newly elected Governor actually is for embryonic stem cell research despite his bases strong opposition. The political end of this is that many in the Saint Louis area are trying to turn it into a hub of bioscience since it has a natural position with major research universities, research hospitals, Monsanto and other bioscience tech companies and the Danforth Foundations decision to spend down into biotech.
The bioscience field isn’t going to tolerate bills suggesting evolution isn’t the only commonly accepted scientific explanation for the diversity of life on Earth. You simply cannot produce a workforce that believes in intelligent design or creationism and is up to the challenge of the research.
So read her quote and understand, she thinks the bioscience industry is like the 9-11 hijackers.
I’m sure Barnes Jewish has a nice little padded room for her.
You misunderstood.
Liberals are like the hijackers.
Missouri is to Illinois as New Hampshire is to Vermont.
Ahhh, but the bioscience field and their liberal theory of the diversity of life are like the hijackers…
Monsanto is, you know, really liberal. (eye roll)
You know what. Of course you can include a chapter with “competing theories”. To be science textbooks however, they’d have to explain why they’re not actually valid theories. Be careful what you wish for and all that.
Monsanto is to Frankenstein as the Bush administration is to Dracula.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!
populism at its worst.