Politics: Dangerous

What makes the efforts by the thinly-veiled creationist organization Texans for Better Science Education to demagogue textbooks that teach evolution extremely dangerous is the power Texas wields over the textbook marketplace. Because of its size, textbook publishers tailor their books to the recommendations of the school board in that state, and all the other states who buy the book have to live with whatever insanity a bunch of crack-smokin' creationists forces on them.