Lets hope that there is not a bias here against clinicians vs. academicians. I can hear you saying, "but he is only a dentist." Why would someone with a PHD necessarily be any more qualified than someone with a DDS to be a school board chairman?
I am not a dentist; I am only an MD doctor in practice, not in academics. I have come across this bias ("he is only a private practitioner") from the university many times in my career, but usually only the young and naive, or the arrogant academicians. The more senior/reasonable academics know that working in the "trenches", is as difficult, if not more so, than working in an "ivory tower", and is due some respect.
Your state has the Governor that tried to bypass the state legislators to enact mandatory vaccination against HPV. That was much more scary in my opinion, because his decision was influenced more by the pharmaceutical lobbyists than it was by science. But I guess this is not a concern of yours since it is only a clinical, and not an academic matter.
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From: WENDEE HOLTCAMP
To: asa@calvin.edu
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 5:35 PM
Subject: [asa] SCARY/: Texas Gov. appoints Dr. McLeroy
As someone who testified at the 2003 SBOE hearings and saw Dr McLeroy in action, I say this is absolutely FRIGHTENING. We can be sure of a showdown in the days ahead. At the hearing he had a huge white posterboard showing why Darwin's theory failed, and he is VERY pro-ID, adamantly so. He's a dentist doctor not an academic doctor, if I recall correctly.
I'm scared for our state. Thanks God my kids are in a private Episcopal school! That's all I have to say.
Wendee
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From: George Cooper [mailto:georgecooper@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 12:44 PM
To: WENDEE HOLTCAMP; Robert Schneider; John Walley; Janice Matchett; Jack Haas; Gregory Arago; gordon brown; George Murphy; David Opderbeck; David Campbell; Austerberry, Charles
Subject: Texas Gov. appoints Dr. McLeroy
Dr. McLeroy announced as the new Chairman of the Texas School Board.
"...in 2003, Dr. McLeroy was one of four board members who voted against proposed high school biology textbooks because he felt their coverage of evolution was "too dogmatic" and did not include possible flaws in Charles Darwin's theory of how life on Earth evolved from lower forms."
The following is an ATM piece he wrote comparing Heliocentrism to Evolution Theory. It is disappointing.
http://home.att.net/~dmcleroy/Textbooks/Historical_Reality.htm
Helio
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