Biologists Skip Louisiana

A group of biologists have decided not to hold their annual convention in New Orleans because of Louisiana law about teaching evolution in public schools. The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology say they’ll meet in Salt Lake City for their 2011 convention. They say Louisiana law weakens science education and specifically attacks evolution in science curricula. Nearly 2000 biologists attend the convention. Last year, the state decided to let local school boards decide what materials science teachers can use to go along with the evolution materials.