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Stand Up For Science is a in Public High School science classes while discounting Evolution . Despite positioning this campaign as supporting - "standing up for" - science, it promotes views and methods that run counter to those accepted by the overwhelming majority of the Kitzmiller V. Dover . OVERVIEW The Stand Up For Science campaign originated in July of 2006 leading up to the showdown in the Kansas Board of Education that began with ", " Free Speech On Evolution ", and " Critical Analysis Of Evolution ", and directing readers and listeners to the Discovery Institute website. As the Kansas debate over the teaching of evolution wound down in Fall 2006 after the conservative Republicans who approved the Critical Analysis of Evolution classroom standards lost their majority in a primary election and the moderate Republicans and Democats vowed to overturn Discovery Institute-influenced 2005 school science standards and adopt those recommended by a State Board Science Hearing Committee that were rejected by the previous board, the Institute shifted the focus of The Stand Up For Science campaign from Kansas to Texas. The scientific and science education communities reacted to campaign by saying that it was a Misinformation campaign. Nick Matzke described the campaign's support for science as " Irony -meter-busting". Kansas Primary Election, August 1 — Online Resources Nick Matzke. The Panda's Thumb , July 16, 2006. In response to the campaign Kansas biology teacher Jeremy Mohn founded the competing website, ''Stand Up for REAL Science''. Stand Up for REAL Science REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS |
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