Trade Representative
Rob Portman urging the U.
Undermining intellectual property law will have damaging consequences to
the American economy.

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S. As a matter of public policy, the Discovery Institute's
Center for Science and Culture, the nation's leading think tank dealing with
scientific challenges to Darwinian evolution, opposes any effort to mandate or
require the teaching of intelligent design by school districts or state boards
of education.

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"I am writing -- as a member of the National Academy of Sciences -- to
voice my strong support for the idea that students should be able to study
scientific criticisms of the evidence for modern evolutionary theory along
with the evidence favoring the theory .

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com. But scientific journals now document many
scientific problems and criticisms of evolutionary theory and students need to
know about these as well," Skell writes."
The Kansas State Board of Education is revising the state's science
standards and last week a board sub-committee heard testimony from scientists
and scholars about how biological and chemical evolution should be presented
in the classroom.

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For further information, please contact: John Procter
at 202-772-2179 or jprocter@dcgpr .

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"Brazil and India continue to run a global campaign against intellectual
property rights ," said Nancie Marzulla, president of Defenders of Property
Rights.

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Assault by Brazil and India on Intellectual Property Rights Continues

Trade Representative
Rob Portman to question Brazil about its poor record of protecting American
intellectual property rights. Brazil stands as the number one abuser of IP
rights in the Western Hemisphere costing American businesses an estimated $900
million in losses in 2003 alone, according to the International Intellectual
Property Alliance (IIPA). TOPEKA, Kan.

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Brazil and India's claims of biopiracy are intended to undue established
agreements on intellectual property rights in the World Trade Organization and
World Intellectual Property Organization .S..

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Last year Ohio adopted a model curriculum that includes a lesson plan on
the "Critical Analysis of Evolution.

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About Defenders of Property Rights
Defenders of Property Rights was founded in 1991 to counterbalance the
governmental threat to private property as a result of a broad range of
regulations.
"Like Dr. Skell, we believe evolution should be taught as a scientific
theory that is open to critical scrutiny, not as a sacred dogma that can't be
questioned ," said Seth Cooper, Senior Program Analyst, Public Policy + Legal
Affairs at the Discovery Institute .

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Defenders of Property Rights repeatedly urged U.

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Open Letter States Brazil and India's Claims of Biopiracy Intended to Roll
Back Intellectual Property Rights and Damage the American Economy

WASHINGTON, Defenders of Property Rights (DPR)
today announced that it has sent an open letter to U. funded body that will advance
provisions aimed at undermining WIPO and WTO intellectual property law.

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Government to block efforts by Brazil and India
from undermining the World Trade Organization as their campaign against
intellectual property rights continues." Two other states, New Mexico, and
Minnesota, have adopted science standards that require learning about some of
the scientific controversies relating to evolution.

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Defenders believes that society can achieve important social
objectives such as protection of our environment and preservation of our
national heritage without destroying private property rights or undermining
free market principles . .

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Evolution is an important theory
and students need to know about it.

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Next week,
their campaign will take center stage as Brazil hosts a meeting of the
Convention on Biological Diversity, a U., Dr.

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As you know, biopiracy is a term
coined by countries engaged in rampant piracy to falsely accuse pharmaceutical
companies of not paying their fair share for genetic natural resources. "The actions of Brazil and India threaten to destabilize
international institutions like the World Trade Organization and damage the
American economy.

National Academy Scientist Encourages Kansas to Adopt Science Standards Allowing for Critical Analysis of Evolution

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**Members and foreign associates of the Academy are elected in recognition
of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research;
election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors that can be
accorded a scientist or engineer.

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DPR believes their actions against
intellectual property rights undermine the strength of the American economy. Of
course, Brazil overlooks that pharmaceutical companies spend billions of
dollars to transform a simple plant into a powerful medicine. Phil Skell , a member of the
National Academy of Sciences** and a professor emeritus of biochemistry at
Pennsylvania State University, has just sent an open letter to the Kansas
State Board of Education encouraging them to revise the state's science
standards to allow students to learn the scientific evidence both for and
against biological and chemical evolution. "Encouraging students to carefully
examine the evidence for and against neo-Darwinism, therefore, will help
prepare students not only to understand current scientific arguments, but also
to do good scientific research.

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"Brazil and India no longer deserves to receive billions
of dollars in American subsidies and trade tariff reductions each year if they
continue to hurt America's economy in this way," said Marzulla.