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​In July we told you about Dr. David Shorrman, author of The Exchange of Truth: Liberating the World From the Lie of Evolution and a member of the state biology panel making recommendations to the Texas Board of Education. Turns out, Shorrman (pictured to the left) was riding in the vanguard of the Board of Ed's frontal assault on science. Hewing suspiciously close (read: verbatim) to a separate review he authored, the panel made a number of evolution-related challenges to publisher Holt McDougal's biology supplement. To resolve the issues, the board ordered Holt to work directly with the state education commish. We thought it strange that an avowed evolution denier had such outsize influence on the shaping of biology texts and our kids' impressionable minds. Fear not. For once, it appears reason has prevailed in the Lone Star State.