Dr. Bouchard says that the LSEA has economic consequences. “If you are an employer in a high tech industry, in the biotechnology sector or in a business that depends heavily on science, would you prefer to hire a graduate from a state where the legislature has in a sense declared that the laws of chemistry, physics or biology can be suspended?”
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Stifling Science: La. Legislators Vote To Retain Creationist Legislation
https://www.au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/stifling-science-la-legislators-vote-to-retain-creationist-legislation