Science textbooks

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ThreeLittleDinosaursROAR · 24/10/2019 13:14

My children are still very young, but I'm considering buying a biology textbook or two as the way things are going, I'm worried they'll be changed. It feels a bit like we'll end up like Texas America but instead of excluding evolution it'll be human biology and anatomy.
Do you think my concerns are far fetched or maybe worth buying a textbook or 2?

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ThreeLittleDinosaursROAR · 24/10/2019 13:56

Thank you, I won't feel crazy buying one or two for when they're a bit older then! I wonder if textbooks go on offer during Black Friday.

I'm pro-science, I believe in evolution, I don't think the earth is flat and I also believe in biology and anatomy etc. The movement feels a bit anti-science and keeps going on in the back of my brain that there may not be easily accessible accurate textbooks when my children are older. Thank you for reassuring me I'm not being too far fetched in buying some!

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AncientLights · 24/10/2019 13:52

Oh God yes but them. Proper books printed on paper. Keep them.

It's one of my big concerns that books will be changed. We're seeing it a bit with the 'N' word being erased in some instances. We can debate the rights and wrongs of that, of course, but if they are able to change books they will. Especially digital ones. I am currently looking for print first edition of seminal books - not necessarily the big, valuable ones but the sort that form the basis of our thinking. Because in years to come our children & grandchildren will be able to compare and see the travesty that has been wrought when they were 'cleaned up'.

ScrimshawTheSecond · 24/10/2019 13:41

On that note, does anyone have any books they'd rec for kids approaching puberty? Clear, factual info would be great.

ErrolTheDragon · 24/10/2019 13:35

There's never any harm in having books! Obviously at this stage you'll want some age-appropriate human body ones.

EndoplasmicReticulum · 24/10/2019 13:33

They haven't been changed (yet). I like to think that this would not happen but there is so much other stuff that is going on which I also thought wouldn't happen - so who knows.

There was a bit of nonsense with a GCSE exam in the summer but it was noticed and complaints made.
www.tes.com/news/biology-gcse-criticised-confusing-sex-and-gender

youkiddingme · 24/10/2019 13:28

Having read the 'it'll never happen' thread I'd say buy them. Worst case scenario you have a couple of slightly out of date (due to genuine scientific discoveries) textbooks - which will still be interesting to look at and compare anyway.

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