Remind Me Not To Raise My Kids in Tampa Bay

Via Sherman Dorn, a Florida state senate committee has approved a bill that would give high school biology teachers the "academic freedom" to teach whatever non-scientific theories they please--Zoroastrian creation myths, anything--adding to existing Florida statute instructing history teachers that "American history shall be viewed as factual, not as constructed, shall be viewed as knowable, teachable, and testable, and shall be defined as the creation of a new nation based largely on the universal principles stated in the Declaration of Independence." In other words, in Florida, science is whatever people believe it is (or isn't), while history is beyond interpretation and debate.