As a revised science curriculum takes shape in schools, key elements of science with public interest, such as air quality and climate change, will become prisoners of political propaganda under government proposals (1) which are already under fire.
 
Media coverage of climate change is already subject to an overwhelming bias (2) in favour of the government's preferred theory, namely man-made climate forcing from carbon dioxide, which is then used to 'justify' taxes such as car tax and the risible climate change levy on businesses. Climate change has not been shown to be man-made by any stretch of the imagination, indeed the IPCC state as much (3). We are also facing an imminent cooling of the global climate which has nothing whatsoever to do with carbon dioxide emissions (4).
 
Students in future will read newspaper coverage of air quality issues in science lessons which, if they mirror the errors of the past and present, will lead them to conclude that outdoor air quality is getting worse when the opposite is true as it's now better than at any time for hundreds of years and ten times better than the air quality in our homes (5).
 
Newspapers and TV news items, if allowed to set the agenda for lessons, will link car emissions with asthma causation, yet asthma cases have increased over a period of time when outdoor air pollution has declined (6). Those with medical knowledge point to the home and enzymes in house dust mite excreta (7).
 
ABD Environment Spokesman Ben Adams Comments:

"Media content must not be allowed to drive the science curriculum. Those with most access to the media - particularly politicians and cash-rich lobbyists - will be given undue prominence and influence over our children's education, which will amount to indoctrination. Standards will also drop like a stone, and they're already too low. Science works by testing hypotheses, not debating soundbytes."