http://michigancitizensforscience.org/main/nfblog Protecting Science Education for Michigan's Children Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:42:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en MCFS co-founder and past president Robert T. Pennock published a guest op-ed about the new creationist-sponsored "academic freedom" bills and their connection to the deceptive ID creationist movie Expelled. The op-ed is titled Creationist Culture Wars, Hollywood Style and appeared on June 26 in the Michigan Messenger. http://michigancitizensforscience.org/main/nfblog/2008/06/04/op-ed-on-hb-6027-and-expelled/ This is the text of a press release the MCFS advisory board just sent to our media contacts: May 19, 2008, For Immediate Release To: Michigan's legislative leaders and the media From: Michigan Citizens for Science, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting and improving science education in our public schools HB 6027 is Trojan ... http://michigancitizensforscience.org/main/nfblog/2008/05/20/mcfs-press-release-on-hb-6027/ Rep. John Moolenaar has submitted a bill to the House Education Committee that represents the latest tactical phase of the anti-evolution movement. That tactic is to smuggle in all the anti-evolution arguments made by advocates of Intelligent Design Creationism (IDC) under the guise of supporting "academic freedom." Similar bills have ... http://michigancitizensforscience.org/main/nfblog/2008/05/01/new-bill-targets-evolution/ MCFS advisory board member Ed Brayton will be speaking in Grand Rapids on Wednesday, March 26. He will be speaking to the Center for Inquiry-Michigan on the religious right's demonization of the ACLU. The speech begins at 7 pm and admission is free. For more information, including directions, click here. http://michigancitizensforscience.org/main/nfblog/2008/03/24/mcfs-board-member-to-speak-in-grand-rapids/ On Tuesday, November 13th at 8 pm, PBS stations will air a special 2-hour NOVA episode "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial" about the Kitzmiller et al v. Dover Area School Board trial, which ruled that teaching Intelligent Design in public school violates the constitutional separation of church and state. ... http://michigancitizensforscience.org/main/nfblog/2007/11/03/nova-special-judgment-day-intelligent-design-on-trial/ Michigan Citizens for Science presented its 2006 Citizen for Science Award to Beverly Hundley, Director of Curriculum and Community Services at Gull Lake Community Schools, for outstanding service in defending the integrity of science and science education. MCFS gratefully recognizes her as an Enlightening Citizen for Science. ... http://michigancitizensforscience.org/main/nfblog/2007/03/30/mcfs-honors-beverly-hundley-2/ MCFS President Robert Pennock has been named a recipient of a prestigious award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest scientific society. He has been named one of the 2007 AAAS Fellows for his tireless work explaining and defending the teaching of evolution in public ... http://michigancitizensforscience.org/main/nfblog/2007/01/11/mcfs-president-wins-aaas-award-2/ Michigan Citizens for Science (MCFS) is happy to announce that we won a major victory with the State Board of Education on Tuesday. Having failed to have pro-ID language included in a bill earlier this year to harmonize the educational standards for public and charter schools in the state, House ... http://michigancitizensforscience.org/main/nfblog/2006/10/10/major-victory-on-science-standards-in-michigan/ The Lansing State Journal editorial board had a very strong op-ed piece in today's paper taking gubernatorial candidate Dick DeVos to task for his support of teaching "intelligent design" in public school science classrooms. In addition to making the correct point that intelligent design is not really a scientific theory ... http://michigancitizensforscience.org/main/nfblog/2006/09/22/mcfs-applauds-lansing-state-journal/ For Immediate Release September 22,2006 Dr. Robert T. Pennock President, Michigan Citizens for Science http://www.michigancitizensforscience.org president@michigancitizensforscience.org As the views of gubernatorial candidate Dick DeVos on teaching "intelligent design" in public schools have come to the public's attention in the last few days, the DeVos campaign seems to be engaging in doubletalk on the issue. A Michigan ... http://michigancitizensforscience.org/main/nfblog/2006/09/22/mcfs-press-release-on-devos-campaign-falsely-claiming-misrepresentation-2/