Nova PBS show on Dover ID trial

Thanks for posting the news about this.Didn't get the show on this side of the world. The trial itself made news in Asia, though. The general reaction to the Dover School Board's fiasco here was a laughing, head-shaking 'WTF?' before getting on with other business.A few people asked me how a country that landed on the moon could turn around and show such appalling scientific illiteracy. I had to explain that schools are run differently in the US than in Taiwan and Japan. Here a Ministry of Education at the national level is staffed with experienced teachers who set standards and evaluate schools. American public schools are locally rather than nationally governed, really. The people in charge of the teachers and principals--the school board members--are usually amateurs. Their lack of expertise does not make them shy about flexing, so once in a while you get things like Dover.I'd appreciate any word about DVDs that become available. Thanks again.

Then it's a good thing no one generalized in the way you describe.What I described was just amazement (and amusement) that things like Dover can happen. Here, local school boards don't have that power. Here, local school boards don't exist.Rest assured that people in the Asia-Pacific region understand bigness. Both Asia and the Pacific are good teachers. And they understand that folk beliefs can persist in advanced cultures. All countries face their challenges in that regard.