Real Scientists Speak out on the Biology Textbook Controversy

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas has more Nobel Laureates on its faculty than any medical school in the nation, as well as more than a dozen fellows of the National Academy of Sciences. Happily, these genuinely eminent scientists--contrast the coterie of "scientists" rounded up by the Discovery [sic] Institute--have penned an excellent column on the teaching of evolutionay biology here. Somehow that famed "scientific controversy" about Darwin hasn't made an impression on these leading biologists. Could it be because the controversy exists only in the minds of the Texas Taliban and their allies, the pathological liars at the Discovery [sic] Institute?