Do Culture Wars Mean Ignoring Science?

In Pennsylvania and elsewhere in America, culture wars are heating up in schools. A drive to include creationism in textbooks is emboldened by the recent election. Some schools also propose censoring school reading lists of “immorality” or ‘foul language’ and to allow the distribution of Bibles in schools. “In Texas, the nation’s second-biggest school textbook market, the State Board of Education approved health textbooks that defined abstinence as the only form of contraception and changed the description of marriage between ‘two people’ to ‘a lifelong union between a husband and a wife’.”