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)