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What world are you living in? There are school boards with majority creationist members that actively attempt to dismantle science classes by forcing their religious doctrine into the textbooks. Fundamentalists do try to rewrite history textbooks as well with revisionist history of their own. "mostly harmless" my ass.
You think creationism is the worst thing we could put in our textbooks? You think it wouldn't be drowned in the mountains of trash that are already there? Do you know how many different groups are at work putting BS into textbooks?

History textbooks will never be good because you cannot teach history from a textbook. History classes will never be good because there is no way on earth to get enough competent teachers. All you can teach is facts and a simplified story. You can't bring together a committee of leading historians and have them put out a good history textbook, if only the fundamentalists are excluded, it doesn't work like that.

"Pulling the wool over the eyes of other people" yeah, because the spin off technologies from NASA totally would be around today if we had not sunk millions into our space program....
NASA is just fine as far as I know. But there is a ton of bad science.

The prestige of science and the false authority that results from it is a bigger problem than fundamentalists denying things so they feel happier in their faith.