{"id":693,"date":"2007-12-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/12\/15\/the-comer-controversy-continue\/"},"modified":"2007-12-15T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-15T12:00:00","slug":"the-comer-controversy-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/15\/the-comer-controversy-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"The Comer controversy continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the NCSE:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Over two weeks after it was first reported that Christine Comer was forced to resign from her post at the Texas Education Agency, apparently because she forwarded a brief e-mail announcing a lecture on &#8220;intelligent design&#8221; by Barbara Forrest, the state&#8217;s newspapers continue to provide a steady stream of news and commentary. And groups with a stake in the integrity of science education in Texas continue to voice their concern. As the Austin American-Statesman (December 14, 2007) observed in its latest story, &#8220;The controversy over Comer&#8217;s departure put the agency&#8217;s scientific credibility at risk at a time when Texas is trying to attract star researchers and scientists for a growing biomedical and biotech industry, and just before the State Board of Education begins developing new science standards next month.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncseweb.org\/resources\/news\/2007\/TX\/141_the_comer_controversy_continue_12_14_2007.asp\">Read the entire press release here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the NCSE: Over two weeks after it was first reported that Christine Comer was forced to resign from her post at the Texas Education Agency, apparently because she forwarded a brief e-mail announcing a lecture on &#8220;intelligent design&#8221; by Barbara Forrest, the state&#8217;s newspapers continue to provide a steady stream of news and commentary. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/15\/the-comer-controversy-continue\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Comer controversy continues<\/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":[],"tags":[55],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-bb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693"}],"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=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}