As you’ll recall, I spoke toward the end of the pub­lic tes­ti­mo­ny at the Texas sci­ence stan­dards sup­ple­ments, so I depart­ed from my pre­pared text a bit. Not, per­haps, my finest per­for­mance ever, due to the ad libbing.

A bunch of oth­er video is online from the hear­ings, includ­ing this stun­ning video of Vera Pre­ston-Jaeger, who told the board “I am able to be here today because I am in a drug research study in Austin and I got the med­i­cine rather than the place­bo. When I was first diag­nosed, I was told that I would go blind and die with­in four years, and I’m still here and I’m very glad to be here today.” From there, she talks about the impor­tance of strong sci­ence edu­ca­tion. It’s awesome.