What did Jindal do to produce a hornet?s nest of ?mad scientists,? as Times-Picayune writer James Gill described them? He signed into law, in Gill?s words, the ?Louisiana Science Education Act (LSEA), which is named for what it is designed to destroy.? The act allows ?supplemental textbooks and other instructional materials? to be brought into classrooms to support the ?open and objective discussion? of certain ?scientific theories,? including, of course, evolution. As educators who have heard such coded language before quickly realized, the act was intended to promote creationism as science. In April, Kevin Carman, dean of the College of Science at Louisiana State University, testified before the Louisiana Senate?s Education Committee that two top scientists had rejected offers to come to LSU because of the LSEA, and the school may lose more scientists in the future.
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