{"id":35513,"date":"2011-05-22T15:42:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T15:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/will-climate-science-have-its-john-scopes-the-intersection\/"},"modified":"2011-05-22T15:42:54","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T15:42:54","slug":"will-climate-science-have-its-john-scopes-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/will-climate-science-have-its-john-scopes-the-intersection.php","title":{"rendered":"Will Climate Science Have Its John Scopes? | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In my last post<\/a>, I noted that the Los Alamitos Unified School District has put in place a policy to “teach the controversy” over climate science. (News report here<\/a>.) If this was evolution rather than climate science, such an action might draw a First Amendment, church-and-state lawsuit. But as I pointed out,<\/p>

Last I checked, libertarianism does not qualify as a religion that cannot be imposed due to the separation of church and state. So what I’m wondering is, when a school district acts this way, what can one do?<\/p><\/blockquote>

Since then I’ve caught wind of an interesting legal theory. The notion is that if a teacher–global warming’s equivalent of John Scopes–were to teach good science in the classroom, refusing to engage in phony “balance” or teach a nonexistent “controversy,” and was then reprimanded\/censored by a school board, you might wind up with a free speech<\/em> claim, rather than an establishment clause claim.<\/p>

I have no idea if this is a colorable legal theory. I am no First Amendment lawyer–but what do others think? Given the mounting number of conflicts around climate science teaching, I think it is worth asking what kinds of legal risks a school board may face if it tries to mandate the teaching of bad science–but not religion–in the classroom.<\/p>

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