Quote Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro View Post
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?
The only issues with math and science textbooks are the over simplified way that concepts are presented and the badly constructed way questions are written. The actual content is not garbage unless you start injecting evidence-lacking religious doctrine into it.

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.
I would prefer history classes to be taught without a textbook, like the world history class I am taking right now in uni. However, you do the best with what you have. You can't simply let it all go to hell because having a textbook is flawed in the first place, either move away from a standard textbook or try your best to minimize the problems. And that means no fundamentalists.


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.
The undeserved promotion of science is worse than the undeserved restriction of X from fundies? I would rather have a world where there is too much of something than not enough.