Kansas Is Flat, Like the Earth

John Rennie, editor-in-chief of Scientific American, sums up the idiocy of the Kansas school board quite well. He writes, "If George Orwell were alive, I think he'd agree this development is not only good but doubleplusgood. Because just teaching kids the right answers is an unbearable infringement on academic freedom. Just think of the advantages that those Kansas students will have when they go up against their peers from other states and other parts of the world, who only know the accepted facts and theories and think that logical consistency is desirable in science." On the other hand, Kansas school board's endorsement of intelligent design theory is sure to be welcomed by the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
