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Ohio School Board Wipes Global Warming, Stem Cell Research References From Official Record
The Akron Beacon Journal reports today, September 13, on the latest wrinkle in the Ohio school board controversy. The board did not discuss or vote on proposed changes to Ohio's science curriculum, the ""controversial issues template" that appeared designed to insinuate the teaching of Intelligent Design into Ohio's public schools.
Indeed, the public outcry over tactics by one faction of the Ohio school board faction that appears to support ID, oppose stem cell research, and question the science of Global Warming seems to have moved the board to spend its two hour meeting on Monday erasing fake references Global Warming and stem cell research
that were surruptiously added to the official minutes of the board's last meeting in July. A tape recording from the July meeting reveals those subjects were never discussed, and references to them were later secretly added. On Monday the official record was once again altered - this time more publicly - to expunge the fake references from the July record and thus erase official evidence of the attempted deceit.
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As the Akron Beacon-Journal writes:
"Patricia Princehouse, evolution advocate and professor at Case Western Reserve University, said the achievement committee didn't run behind schedule by accident.
Princehouse said the committee ate up the two hours by rewriting minutes from July to remove from the public record any direct mention of intelligent design.
Steve Rissing, an Ohio State University professor and evolution backer, said the changes in the minutes are significant.
'The corrected minutes bear no resemblance to what I saw and what I heard,' Rissing said.
The template's author, Colleen Grady, a board member from Strongsville, pushed during Monday's meeting to remove language referring to evolution, global warming, stem-cell research and cloning technologies that were in the original standards introduced in July.
The two scientists maintain Grady introduced these specific ideas in July and they were contained in the minutes assembled then, but the board's rewriting of those minutes has deleted references to these controversial ideas.
Grady could not be reached for comment Tuesday." Related Story: HOPE For Ohio Education
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