Did Nick Matzke Misuse National Science Foundation Money Intended to Fund Science Research?

Former National Center for Science Education activist Nick Matzke has just published an utterly inane article in Science about academic freedom bills. In the article, he constructs a "phylogenetic tree" to show that various academic freedom bills are related to one another.

If the intention was to show that Discovery Institute has supported academic freedom legislation in various states, or that many of those bills have similar language, Matzke didn't need to construct a phylogenetic tree. H...