The Null Device

A study of high-school science textbooks in the US has shown that they are riddled with errors; these range from incorrectly stating Newton's first law of physics to showing the Equator as passing through the southern United States. This will undoubtedly hearten the Bush administration, allowing them to placate their Christian Fundamentalist support base by pushing to make science textbooks consistent with Creationist cosmologies (i.e., removing anything that implies that the Earth is more than 6,000 years old), whilst arguing to more secular voters concerned about education that the changes will have a minimal impact on scientific literacy. (via Leviathan)

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