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Because, Katherine, as much as we may want to think that religion and politics are separate from scientific practices, that is not the world we live in.

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From: Monona Rossol
Date: May 22, 2017 at 11:46:27 AM EDT
To: DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**PRINCETON.EDU

I agree with you if you mean keeping religion off the forum as a subject. The comment that was negative about religion was sent to me off line and then later resent on line. I would not have replied if I had known it would later be on line.

However, the fact that the accident under discussion was at a religious school in Texas cannot be ignored because it means that, unlike public schools in Texas that are exempted from the federal OSHA rules, this school comes under OSHA and hazcom or the lab standard apply. And the standards for training and certification for teachers are very likely to be different for religious schools in this state. Even the well-known Texas policies which restrict the science in school text books may play a part in the background and education of that teacher. So there is no way that a competent investigator should ignore the fact that this is a religious school or that it is in Texas.

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