{"id":25052,"date":"2011-04-21T16:36:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T16:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/04\/21\/back-to-article-nobel-laureat\/"},"modified":"2011-04-21T16:36:41","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T16:36:41","slug":"back-to-article-nobel-laureat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/21\/back-to-article-nobel-laureat\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel laureates push repeal of La. education law"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) &#8212; More than 40 Nobel Prize-winning scientists are urging Gov. Bobby Jindal and Louisiana lawmakers to repeal a law that allows public school science teachers to use supplemental materials in their classrooms beyond state-approved textbooks.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter released Thursday, the Nobel laureates say the &#8220;Louisiana Science Education Act&#8221; of 2008 creates a pathway for creationism and other non-scientific instruction to be taught in science classes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Louisiana&#8217;s students deserve to be taught proper science rather than religion presented as science,&#8221; says the letter representing a list of prominent scientists who over the last four decades have won the Nobel for physics, chemistry, physiology and medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: http:\/\/www.stamfordadvocate.com\/news\/article\/Nobel-laureates-push-repeal-of-La-education-law-1347159.php#ixzz1KBoKcMMf\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stamfordadvocate.com\/news\/article\/Nobel-laureates-push-repeal-of-La-education-law-1347159.php\"><br \/>\nRead the rest here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) &#8212; More than 40 Nobel Prize-winning scientists are urging Gov. Bobby Jindal and Louisiana lawmakers to repeal a law that allows public school science teachers to use supplemental materials in their classrooms beyond state-approved textbooks. In a letter released Thursday, the Nobel laureates say the &#8220;Louisiana Science Education Act&#8221; of 2008 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/21\/back-to-article-nobel-laureat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nobel laureates push repeal of La. education law<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6w4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}