AAAS to South Carolina: ‘Stick to Science’

As the South Carolina Board of Education prepares to consider changes to state biology standards March 8, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) on February 28 urged officials to “resist efforts to weaken science education.”

In a letter to Joe Isaac, chair of the State Board of Education, AAAS Board Chair Gilbert S. Omenn said that proposed alternative language would undermine the teaching of evolution and confuse students about the nature of science versus religion.

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