Fiction author Robin Brande talks about writing, reading, and other vital matters

Apparently while I was gone, evolutionary biology was eliminated by the federal government as an acceptable field of study.

Read the whole article for all the spine-tingling intrigue, but here’s a taste:

Nassirian said people at the Education Department had described the omission as “a clerical mistake.” But it is “odd,” he said, because applying the subject codes “is a fairly mechanical task. It is not supposed to be the subject of any kind of deliberation.”

Scientists who know about the omission also said they found the clerical explanation unconvincing, given the furor over challenges by the religious right to the teaching of evolution in public schools. “It’s just awfully coincidental,” said Steven W. Rissing, an evolutionary biologist at Ohio State University.

Thanks, BJ, for the heads up!

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Posted on Friday, August 25th, 2006 at 8:32 am under Science . Subscribe to responses: RSS 2.0 Comment Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.