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Collapse of a Texas Quote Mine
Collapse of a Texas Quote Mine
Home On January 22 nd , 2009, the Texas State Board of Education met to consider a draft of their new science standards. At that meeting, the Board’s Chairman, Dr. Donald McLeroy , proposed a new student expectation for the Biology standards regarding evolution. The standard concerned the fossil ...
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Collapse of a Texas Quote Mine
Little Green Footballs — ... And here’s a great website that exposes the deceptiveness of McLeroy’s quotes, by showing exactly where they came from (if they weren’t altogether invented), and the context in which they were made: Collapse of a Texas Quote Mine. ...

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