Californian textbooks get rid of all this AGW nonsense!

[woof]

Román, D. and K. C. Busch (2015). "Textbooks of doubt: using systemic functional analysis to explore the framing of climate change in middle-school science textbooks." Environmental Education Research: 1-23.

Middle school students are learning about climate change in large part through textbooks used in their classes. Therefore, it is crucial to understand how the language employed in these materials frames this topic. To this end, we used systemic functional analysis to study the language of the chapters related to climate change in four sixth grade science textbooks adopted in the state of California. The linguistic variables investigated were: types of nominal groups; processes; circumstances; and the modality system. Our findings showed that these textbooks framed climate change as uncertain in the scientific community ? both about whether it is occurring as well as about its human-causation. The implications for science education are discussed in relation to how the current political and public discourses of climate change, rather than the scientific discourse, is influencing how textbooks discuss this topic.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2015.1091878

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...1110120441.htm

[Jerome]

[Jerome]

Teach a failed hypothesis as fact, and you have children believing the creator doesn't exist.

[buttershug]

Teach a failed hypothesis as fact, and you have children believing the creator doesn't exist.

Hitler was a creationist.

[woof]

Teach a failed hypothesis as fact, and you have children believing the creator doesn't exist.

Science does have to be more people-friendly. If people do not like facts and theories in science, we obviously have to change them, because the customer is always right. None of this relying on evidence and testing nonsense. People pay taxes, so of course the scientists should always come up with results that please us.
And what is the point of corporate funding in science, if science says "No"?

Scientists never give absolute answer, like a firm yes or no. They always jibber on about error bars and outliers and quantum fluctuations and nonsense like that. Why waste money on that?

Better to put our trust in someone like Hitler, who had firm opinions on everything. Clerics too, are very certain about what they talk about. No mucking about with falsification, nuances or evidence or logic or any of that shit.

[Fenrir]

Teach a failed hypothesis as fact, and you have children believing the creator doesn't exist.

Fuck off ya wanker.

[Resi]

Fuck off ya wanker.

Needs a smiley:

[Jerome]

Teach the religious myths in youth, and you have a generation believing falsehoods.

[woof]

Teach the religious myths in youth, and you have a generation believing falsehoods.

The Jesuits said that best: "Give me the boy, and I will give you the man" [or summat like that].

[Resi]

The Jesuits said that best: "Give me the boy, and I will give you the man, but first let's abuse the kid for some years." [or summat like that].

FYP

[Steviepinhead]

All societies must reproduce themselves. Abusive ones must reproduce the abuse.

[RAFH]

The Jesuits said that best: "Give me the boy, and I will give you the man" [or summat like that].

Actually, I think it was more just "Give me the boy!"

[woof]

Godwin's Law, child abuse and institutionalized global warming denial all within 12 posts I love TR!

[Rumraket]

So we better teach them what YOU believe.

Do you understand irony, or hypocricy, Jerome?

At this stage I wouldn't be surprised if you yourself was actually a white supremacist. Spend any time om Stormfront lately? Does blacks on blondes-porn make you angry? Do you secretly fear the eventual disappearance of the white "race"?