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Re:Portland school board bans climate change-denying materials by whatshisface on Saturday June 04, 2016 @01:57PM (#11837216)
I'd support that.

Elememtary textbooks contain almost exclusively the seminal theories that we are very sure about. If we expressed our certianty there, kids might get the idea that all of science is similarly so.

In science, "the evidence suggests..." is a very high seal of approval. I'd place more emphasis on making them understand that than I would on adding a few nines to their certianty that the earth is round.

Re:Portland school board bans climate change-denying materials by stdbrouw on Saturday June 04, 2016 @02:09PM (#11837273)
Can't say I know what the US curriculum is mostly like, but I was taught about the Bohr atomic model before learning about how they figured out why it wasn't exactly right and we talked about how Newtonian physics was superseded by relativistic physics. There are better ways to express the scientific ethos than to just prefix every statement with "maybe".