Thomas was still the President in spring of 2018[1] In 1996 creationists on the New Mexico School Board tried to change science standards to water down instruction of evolution.
[4] To combat the campaign against evolution, a sister group was started called the Coalition for Excellence in Science and Math Education.
[2] In 1996 two creationists on the New Mexico Board of Education "succeeded in replacing evolution and the age of the earth with 'various theories of origin' in the state science standards".
This led NMSR and other residents to write letters to the Albuquerque Journal complaining about the lowering of science standards.
Dave Thomas from NMSR stated that if unscientific theories are allowed to be taught in public schools "pretty soon we'll have Holocaust deniers insisting there were no gas chambers".
[4][5][2][6] Formed in 2005, Science Watch was hosted by Dave Thomas and Kim Johnson and was a weekly podcast until 2010 when it discontinued recording.
Forrest describes the podcast as "an example of the value of cultivating contacts with local media by providing them with information during flareups".
[7] The article, which was satirical, was originally attributed to "April Holiday" of the "Associmated Press" [sic], but was really written by NMSR board member Mark Boslough.
[8] In addition to its appearance in NMSR Reports, the story was only posted in the talk.origins newsgroup on April 1, 1998, by Thomas who later that day confessed to the hoax.
A few weeks later Thomas checked back on talk.origins website and elsewhere on the Internet by searching for the phrase "Alabama Pi", to his surprise he received "hundreds of hits".
[10] On April 1, 1999, Stefan, who was studying at the University of Heidelberg, posted to a website about a fossil uncovered at a dig in New Mexico that he and other students were working on.
Stefan stated that he was worried the website would not last long once word got out that "We found a fossil of a hominid, being eaten by an allosaurus [sic] dinosaur."
When a flyer was posted showing that the lectures were being co-sponsored by the publicly funded museum, two former engineers complained that creationists were not allowed their side of the story.
KRQE News 13 received copies of the emails shared between the organizers and the museum's staff showing their involvement.
(2014) In a letter shown on the KRQE video dated February 7, 2014, the DCA explained to the two creationists what had happened with the flyer.
Some of the presenters and their topics were: Dave Thomas (emcee, 9/11, and Flat Earth), Adrienne Hill (spirit and ghost photography), Ben Radford (emcee and The Blue Whale Game), Celestia Ward (fallibility of memory), Larry Barker (Bigfoot and Roswell UFOs), and Susan Gerbic (facilitated communication), Frank Etscorn (medical quakery), and Kurly Tlapoyawa (pseudoarcheology).There were also panel discussions as well as a presentation of the film The UFO Movie THEY Don’t Want You to See[17] by Brian Dunning.
The speakers are usually from within the local group who present short talks, mostly on scientific skepticism topics, but sometimes from the world of science.