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Politicians step up attacks on teaching scientific theories in US schools

Scientific theory has had a hard time in America’s public schools. Nearly 100 years ago, science teacher John Scopes was convicted of violating a Tennessee law prohibiting the teaching of the theory of evolution. Although his conviction was overturned on a technicality in 1927, laws prohibiting classes on Darwin’s theory persisted for another 40 years.… Read More »