Oh right, I’ll have to do that soon, although re:Textbooks specifically I think it says everything you need to know about that at my High School — which had easily one of the top five Science program in the state (within a public school, obviously the Catholic high schools all had better bio departments since they teach evolution), if not the very best — we did not actually use the textbooks assigned for each class and our lessons were always from handouts, usually photocopies of texts from other states. I mean sure we might take out the book to use those reference pages where they had the philogenetic tree, or the periodic table or a metric conversion, but the entire content of the books was ignored.

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Also – thanks chanson for the nod. I enjoy reading all the different stories and posts from the week before. Thanks for organizing this.

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He draws practically all of his data from RfM! And the rest, he takes from the only source known to be more hostile to Mormonism: Evangelical Christians who are actively trying to deconvert Mormons!

You have to take into account that every Internet message board is a social community with its own flavor which reinforces itself in a number of ways (people are attracted by its reputation, they stick around because they fit in, they modify their own style to fit in, etc.). Five years ago it may have appeared that RfM was the only game in town for former Mormons. But the number of alternate venues that have sprung up since then — each serving a different niche — demonstrates that RfM’s “recovery” style doesn’t represent the whole community, not even the whole secular exmo community. They serve a real, valid segment within they exmo community, but it’s wrong to suggest that RfM = the former-Mormon community.

As far as I’m concerned, the sample is so biased that it renders the study worthless.

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