Under this sort of reasoning almost any educational or First Amendment issue
could be grouped under the Free Culture category.  I can't imagine it would
be useful to have such a broad mission for this organization.  The NOVA
special was very interesting, though.

On Nov 12, 2007 7:25 PM, Peter Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> At 7:48 PM -0500 11/12/07, Fred Benenson wrote:
> >Hi, I know this seems like something most people on this list might
> >be interested in, but it's really not on topic with respect to Free
> >Culture, so it's really not appropriate for this list.
> >
> >Hope you understand & Thanks!
> >
> >Fred
>
> I understand that it's borderline, and has an argument against it that it
> could start an argument about the merits of ID, which definitely would be
> off-topic.
>
> But consider the situation in which you live in a theocracy where
> religious
> tenets are deployed routinely to interfere with science.  Such theocracies
> exist, but the United States is not one of them.  Nevertheless, for
> someone
> in that situation interference with science in this fashion is as much a
> free
> culture issue as open access to knowledge.
>
> (I will now step off my soapbox :-)
>
> peter
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