Originally Posted by kerry

I wasn't intending to reply to your comment about the science curriculum. I was intending to reply to the part of your comment where you said that having students study only 'correct ideas' was similar to the Taliban.
I think curriculum decisions in science or elsewhere have to exclude certain ideas. Excluding false ideas is a pretty good criteria for determining curriculum. For instance, why not teach students that balancing the humors will cure disease in non-science classes? We don't teach it because we don't think it's true anymore. Making such a decision, on the basis of truth, is not acting like the Taliban, because the justification of the curriculum decision is not based on religious dogma but on the distinction between true and false.