Tennessee: yet more monkey (bill) business

[the_archfiend]

You really have to wonder if the 72 members of the Tennessee House of Representatives dumb enough to vote for House Bill 368 were really paying attention even in the wake of being warned of the possible consequences by scientists who work and reside in their state. On the other hand, this already happened in the state Senate, so why shouldn't the other chamber make a similar lemming-like march over the cliff in order to pander to their political base?

Politicians have never been known for their moral courage in the face of controversy; likewise, it's getting more and more difficult to take them as anything but a mass example of the Dunning-Kruger effect at work on questions concerning science and scientific education.