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—Eugenie Scott, director of the Oakland, California-based National Center for Science Education, referring to a law passed in Tennessee that allows public-school educators to teach alternatives to mainstream scientific theories, such as evolution and global warming (Nature, Apr. 11, 2012)

—Tennessee Governor William Haslam, a Republican who failed to either sign or veto Tennessee’s “monkey bill,” which therefore became law on Apr. 10, 2012

Forbes contributor Victoria Pynchon, on a Stanford Center of Neuroscience for Women’s Health study of the biological underpinnings of the “gender leadership gap” (Apr. 10, 2012)

—Michael Taylor, the US Food and Drug Administration’s deputy commissioner of food, on a new rule that requires farmers and ranchers to get a prescription to use antibiotics in livestock (The New York Times, Apr. ...

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