Louisiana State University's former graduate dean of science, Kevin Carman, says: 'teaching pseudo-science drives scientists away.' Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal endorsed teaching creationism in public schools , by way of the state's creationism law, a misnamed and misguided piece of legislation called the Louisiana Science Education Act . In a recent interview with NBC News , Jindal said:

"Let's teach them about intelligent design … What are we scared of?"

Governor Jindal, we are scared of the harm to Louisiana students and to our state. The Louisiana Science Education Act has already hurt our economy.

The chairman of Louisiana's senate education committee, Conrad Appel, has called for high schools and colleges to graduate more students in Stem fields (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), because "the amount of income [students] can earn in these related fields is best." Teaching students that creationism is science will

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will hold five public meetings around the South in June to hear what people think about using genetically modified crops on refuges to provide food for ducks, geese and other migrating waterfowl.

In a program that started in the 1930s, farmers working with the agency have harvested part of the crops they grow on about 44,000 acres scattered in 46 refuges across at least eight of the district's 10 states but mostly in Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas.

The agency began taking public comments Tuesday for an environmental analysis required under a ruling by U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg in Washington.

The Center for Food Safety, one of three environmental groups that sued the region, is pleased that the Southeast Region is taking the process seriously and engaging the public, senior staff attorney Paige Tomaselli said Tuesday. She said