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The new draft of the science standards was prepared by the Kansas Board of
Education's Science Hearings Committee after hearing testimony from nearly two
dozen scientists and scholars last month about how evolution should be
presented in the classroom. The difference , he
added, is that "during the Eisenhower-McCarthy era, the opposition to McCarthy
was quite strong ."
Despite his strong feelings on the subject, Kandel, who emigrated to the
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work on the physiological basis of memory storage in neurons, explained that
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"Anyone who claims
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New Draft of Kansas Science Standards Praised for Encouraging Critical Analysis of Evolution

The proposed standards correctly treat evolution like a
scientific theory that is open to further investigation, not a sacred cow.
"From a restrictive point of view, this is an even more painful era in
some ways than the Eisenhower-McCarthy era," Kandel said.

Science + the City is the webzine of the New York Academy of Sciences.

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In its "Rationale of the State Board for Adopting these Science Curriculum
Standards," the Science Hearings Committee also stressed "that the Science
Curriculum Standards do not include the theory of Intelligent Design. "I think the scientific community
is extremely concerned about the future of this country given the restrictions
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be presented to the Kansas State Board of Education this week is drawing
praise for recognizing that students need to study all the scientific evidence
relating to chemical and biological evolution.

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In the book, Kandel recalls how his mentor, Harry Grundfest, a neurologist
at Columbia University, was denied NIH funding during the McCarthy-era
Communist witch hunts.

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West praised the Science Hearings Committee for making clear that it was
basing its new draft of the science standards on science, not religion.
The Committee noted that it was "aware that the study and discussion of
the origin and development of life may raise deep personal and philosophical
questions for many people on all sides of the debate.

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Kandel's remarks came during an interview with Science + the City, the
webzine of the New York Academy of Sciences, about his new memoir, In Search
of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind (Norton, March 2006) . For a free subscription to S+C Weekly, a weekly email newsletter,
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"There 's very little funding, there's political censorship about what one
does and how one speaks about it," he said.

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The Committee concluded that it had "heard
credible scientific testimony that indeed there are significant debates about
the evidence for key aspects of chemical and biological evolutionary theory.scienceandthecity.

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Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel Condemns 'Censorship' of Scientists; Calls Current Climate for Science as 'Disastrous' as McCarthy Era

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But as interesting as
these personal questions may be, the personal questions are not covered by
these curriculum standards nor are they the basis for the Board's actions in
this area.
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"There now should be no doubt that the debate over science standards in
Kansas is NOT about intelligent design," said West.

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"The new draft standards call for students to learn more about the
scientific evidence regarding chemical and biological evolution, including
scientific criticisms raised in peer-reviewed science journals," said Dr. The Board does not take a position on this topic ."
The restrictions are particularly difficult because "the country is
training the next generation of scientists, and unless more funding is
forthcoming, we cannot assure their future or the American leadership in
science," he added.

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, Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel has compared the effects of
government science policy to the Eisenhower-McCarthy era, when scientists were
persecuted for their political beliefs.

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"This is a common-sense approach that will benefit students, parents,
and teachers.

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To hear all of Kandel's provocative interview with Science + the City
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At the same time, the new draft
standards make clear that they do not cover the concept of intelligent design. He considers the current political climate "equally
disastrous" for scientists.nyas.

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John
West, Associate Director of Discovery Institute's Center for Science and
Culture. The real debate in
Kansas is whether to teach students the scientific evidence for and against
Darwin's theory, not whether to teach them alternative theories.

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While
the testimony presented at the science hearings included both advocates and
critics of the theory of Intelligent Design, we do not include it in these
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NEW YORK, Noting that it's "a terrible time for
science" in the U. The title comes from
Kandel's observation that advances in the disciplines of behaviorist
psychology, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and molecular biology have
converged and given scientists opportunities to examine the brain in novel
ways.

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Discovery Institute supports teaching students more about evolutionary
theory , including introducing them to mainstream, peer-reviewed scientific
debates over key aspects of modern evolutionary theory (known as
neo-Darwinism).