[neverdem]

Since the topic is scientific heresy, how about the constant harping of low fat diets and our obesity epidemic?

Carbohydrate restriction improves the features of Metabolic Syndrome. Metabolic Syndrome may be defined by the response to carbohydrate restriction

[steve-b]

Perhaps the most egregious example in American history was the eugenics movement

Yes, we've seen the dangers of supposing life to be susceptible to Intelligent Design....

[TexasKate]

Anything that creates doubt about evolution is ok with me.

[Jim Robinson]

Just wait until the population explosion. You’ll be sorry, you doubter you.

[George - the Other]

John G. West is an idiot.

[onewhowatches]

Mind you, this also means that science teachers will be free to preach that evolution is disproof of God. Academic freedom, after all.

I'd make a small bet that, even in Louisiana, there are more science teachers willing to preach atheism than ID.

[ASA Vet]

[Aquinasfan]

There really is nothing like dogmatic empiricists, especially empiricists with little evidence to support their dogmas.

Anyway, congratulations to Louisiana! May the intellectual dam of Darwinism burst wide open.

[Aquinasfan]

Since the topic is scientific heresy, how about the constant harping of low fat diets and our obesity epidemic?

There is a correlation between low fat/high carb diets and the current diabetes epidemic. You'd think that such a correlation would be of interest to scientists. The public has been out ahead (at least a decade or two) of the medical community on this one.

[Aquinasfan]

Since the topic is scientific heresy, how about the constant harping of low fat diets and our obesity epidemic?

There is a correlation between low fat/high carb diets and the current diabetes epidemic. You'd think that such a correlation would be of interest to scientists. The public has been out ahead (at least a decade or two) of the medical community on this one.

[gobucks]

Excellent link to the MetS article; completely coincides with the personal experience of Mrs. GB - high BMI, and PCOS that proved to be largely unresponsive to traditional infertility treatments.

3 children later, we have found the “secret cure” to infertility: serious CHO restriction. Since puberty, she was fortunate to be fertile once per year at best. Within two weeks of severe CHO restriction, normal fertility ‘appeared’. Month after month.

Now the issue is how many children are too many to have? Its a much better problem to have, trust me.

[Coyoteman]

Typical Dyscovery Institute anti-science nonsense.

Students need to know about the current scientific consensus on a given issue, but they also need to be able to evaluate critically the evidence on which that consensus rests.

So when teachers teach that creation "science" and intelligent design are fundamentalist religious propaganda dishonestly masquerading as science they will be protected by this new law.

Talk about unintended consequences!

[Oztrich Boy]

"Mr West, I reccommed that you read this book"

[upcountryhorseman]

I am so pleased to hear this!

[Christopher Lincoln]

By the time the crusade had run its course, some 60,000 Americans had been sterilized against their will in an effort to keep us from sinning against Darwin’s law of natural selection, which Princeton biologist Edwin Conklin dubbed “the great law of evolution and progress.”

This is the exact opposite of the truth. The point of eugenics is to defeat natural selection, which eugenicists hubristically imagine they are able to do.

steve-b is quite right to point out (in post 2) that eugenics is a form of intelligent design. Not intelligent enough, you say? Exactly: nothing and nobody is intelligent enough. The believer need not dispute this; I have said before that omniscience is not a high level of intelligence, but a different concept altogether.

[tacticalogic]

I wonder how long it will be until some kid challenges the “dogma” of mathematics, and argues that it’s unfair to say there is only one right answer.