Fact-Check: The Atlantic Misrepresents Kansas Science Standards and Won't Correct the Record

More than a decade later, news media still misrepresent the 2005 Kansas science standards. An article in the November 2016 issue of The Atlantic, "Big in Europe: The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster,"contains a significant factual error. Reporter and senior editor Kathy Gilsinan states:

In 2005, the Kansas Board of Education voted to let public schools teach the creationist theory of intelligent design alongside evolution, arguing, among other things, that you couldn't prove a superna...