Welcome...
...to the Science, Just Science campaign!
About us
We are a collection of concerned individuals from all walks of life and of all backgrounds and beliefs. We are concerned because of the teaching of pseudoscience in place of science in schools in the UK and about what affect that will have on our nation's children.
If you would like to find out more about the campaign - and especially if you would like to help - then please first of all read our
campaign introduction, which includes instructions on how to register for this site.
What's urgent?
UK Science Teaching Under Severe Attack
The so-called "
Truth in Science" organisation not long ago sent free "science education" resource materials to every school in the UK.
The are advocating the teaching of something called "Intelligent Design theory" as an alternative to the theory of evolution in science classes, and that we should "teach the controversy" between these two theories.
Let's be straight about this:
- There is no scientific controversy about the basic mechanisms that make up the theory of evolution.
- Evolution is supported by vast amounts of empirical evidence, and is the cornerstone for modern research into the biological sciences.
- "Intelligent Design theory" is a theory in the sense of it being a hypothetical idea, not in the sense of being a scientific theory which is actually backed up by empirical evidence.
- Intelligent Design has been found to be "a religious alternative masquerading as a scientific theory" and "not science" in a prominent law suit in the USA, and has been ruled unconstitutional to be taught as science in public schools under the separation of church and state laws.
- The UK does not enjoy constitutional protection for public school science teaching.
SJS statement:
We urge teachers to treat the "Truth in Science" material with extreme caution. The material is full of scientific errors and misrepresentations and fails to inform the recipients of the distributors' creationist agenda. Misguided attempts to deliver this material in a science classroom will confuse rather than enlighten children, and could well place their future academic success and careers at risk.
SJS believes that undermining scientific understanding in the young will have a dangerous impact on their education and we are disgusted at these tactics that deliberately target young and impressionable school children. Given that the numbers of science graduates is already falling year by year, we do not need our children confused and bemused by having religious fundamentalism smuggled into science lessons.
We also have several pages dealing with specific
Truth In Science claims.
What's new?
We have now completed the move from our
old forums to this new wiki based site.
If you're wondering where to start with this new wiki site (!) then visit our 'How to use this site'
FAQ, and start with the campaign
contents and
introduction pages.
The campaign itself has undergone a bit of restructuring, including a new
organisation of the campaign responsibilities.
For all campaign announcements and events, along with latest science, creationism and education news please visit our
blog.
We still have a number of
forums available for helping to organise the campaign and discussing campaign related issues.
We now also have a fully integrated wiki (you're currently reading it!) along with a host of other features such as quizzes, FAQs, surveys, a calendar and a directory of web links.
Blogs
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