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![]() AIBS denounces Tennessee's "monkey bills"
![]() The American Institute of Biological Sciences denounced Tennessee's "monkey bills" — House Bill 368 and Senate Bill 893 — as "bad for science, science education, and the future economic health of well being of Tennessee" in letters sent to the leadership of the Tennessee General Assembly (PDF) and to Governor Bill Haslam (PDF). Tennessee's top scientists oppose "monkey bills"
![]() Eight Tennessee members of the National Academies — including a Nobel laureate — have signed a statement (PDF) expressing their firm opposition to House Bill 368 and Senate Bill 893. Evolution-as-theory bill defeated in New Hampshire
![]() "A bill that would have required public schools to teach evolution as a theory, a move often used by proponents of creationism to discredit the science of evolution, was handily shot down by the House of Representatives Thursday, 280-7," the Nashua Telegraph (March 16, 2012) reports. Oklahoma antiscience bill passes the House
![]() Oklahoma's House Bill 1551 — one of two bills attacking the teaching of evolution and of climate change active in the Oklahoma legislature during 2012 — passed the House of Representatives on a 56-12 vote on March 15, 2012. "Monkey bill" returns in Tennessee
![]() Senate Bill 893 — nicknamed, along with its counterpart House Bill 368, "the monkey bill" — is back. ![]() |
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