Evolutionary Biology Not An Accepted Major?
I heard on the Democracy Now podcast that it was reported that Evolutionary Biology is not on a list of approved majors to receive federal study grants for low income students. It is the second story from the end of that page.
This appears to be another attempt to politicize science again and attack accepted science that may not agree with the current administrations beliefs. While I tend to believe more in incompetence than in conspiracy, there has been a long trend of attacks on accepted science; global climate change is probably the most well known example.
Democracy Now mentions this was reported in the NY Times and so I tracked down the original article. The claim is that the omission was just an oversight and that it would be added back to the list, however as of this writing it still has not been added.
If you want to help me keep an eye on this and make sure it does get added back to the list, the list can be found online.
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October 27th, 2006 at 12:35 pm
Seems the list now (Oct 26, 2006) includes evolutionary biology in the list (number 26.1303) . It is interesting to note that there is a date next to it of 08/25/2006.