Beware of legislators who get their hands on a science question.

Legislators are always under pressure from their constituents, and some of that pressure

is from groups who want something banned, or who want something taught in schools.

And those legislators always have to make some decision.

But just remember that a law reflects what bureaucrats were persuaded to do.

That does not represent a science finding.

The pitfalls of legislating pseudoscience is today unskeptoid.

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Legislating pseudoscience.

Science is not done in the courtroom or in the halls of legislature, but all too often

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