A IGNORÂNCIA ESCONDIDA

Habitual destaque semanal à coluna What´s New do físico Robert Park:
"The National Science Board, established by Congress as a national science policy body, oversees NSF and provides independent science policy advice to the President and Congress.  It issues a huge biennial report, Science and Engineering Indicators, which is a compendium of quantitative data on the science enterprise around the world.  The results are disturbing. In their understanding of science, polls found, most Americans are falling behind, even though much of the progress was made by American scientists and engineers.  Congress needs to hear these facts.  Instead, poll questions dealing with the origin of the universe and evolution were simply excised from the report   The board member who took the lead in removing the text was John T. Bruer, a philosopher with close ties to the Vatican.  I hope that Science will publish the apocryphal text so we may judge its relevance for ourselves."