The Chief Scientist of the Israeli Ministry of Education, Dr. Gavriel Avital, is being called upon to resign because he has defied two religious doctrines. No, not Jewish doctrines, but secular doctrines of the "scientific consensus", evolution and global warming.
They can't say he is ignorant; he's a scientist. So they accuse him of heresy. It's all very well to have a "healthy debate," one critic sniffs, but not in the Education Ministry. "Arguments and counter-arguments" are fine until the counter-arguments start persuading.
So rather than debating with Dr. Gavriel or holding scholarly meetings on the topics he raises, the push is to get the man fired. Of course. That's how science advances, right?
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