Hat tip to Susie Madrak over at Crooks & Liars, who wrote earlier today about the Crazy*ss 'Facts' to be Taught in Louisiana's Voucher Schools.
She caught this story at Mother Jones, chronicling Louisiana's head-first descent into Idiocracy. Among the "facts" to be taught:
2. Dragons were totally real: "[Is] it possible that a fire-breathing animal really existed? Today some scientists are saying yes. They have found large chambers in certain dinosaur skulls…The large skull chambers could have contained special chemical-producing glands. When the animal forced the chemicals out of its mouth or nose, these substances may have combined and produced fire and smoke."—Life Science, 3rd ed., Bob Jones University Press, 2007
I'm 99 and 44/100 percent certain I know whence this one comes (hint: Cable TV). See below for the answer.
Does that remind anyone else of the 2004 Animal Planet fake documentary The Last Dragon?
That show was an amusing way to pass an hour because it cleverly merged the myths and legends about dragons with actual scientific techniques of field research and broadcast techniques of myriad documentaries about animals. Naturally, even children could discern the difference.
Leave it to these fools to fail that simple test.
The lawsuits should be très amusant.