A statement that came across here recently has inspired this
paraphrase:
If proponents of some idea claimed to be scientific should
ever resort to the legislatures and courts to prevent any
competing idea from being discussed in the classroom
(Tennessee v. Scopes), cast vague doubts about a competing
idea (various "textbook disclaimers"), or to mandate the
teaching of their own view as if scientific (Arkansas Act 590
and similar), I would urge students to be skeptical of
whatever was being advanced politically rather than through
scientific peer review.
Wesley
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