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Just last month, the Texas state Board of Education was exposed for approving racist textbooks that whitewash history while shaming Latinos as “lazy drunks.” Now some BOE members are kicking their right-wing policies up a notch by renewing efforts to undermine the teaching of evolution.

Last year, the BOE agreed that they would “streamline” the science standards and this July educators and scholars met to discuss their recommendations for what those standards should be, Kathy Miller of the Texas Freedom Network wrote in the El Paso Times. Anti-science creationists are already complaining about it, even though the panel hasn’t come to any final decisions.

The panel did decide, however, to cut any anti-evolution references that biologists and other scientists have called inaccurate and unscientific. That’s where the anti-science activists are launching their protests.

One such activist is Ray Bohlin, an associate of two national anti-evolution organizations Probe Ministries and the Discovery Institute. He takes issue with the “quick and concerted” effort […]