Petty Politics Sabotages Science. Details at 11.
Now lets get pi equal to 3.2 like God and Indiana intended.
never became law due to the intervention of C. A. Waldo, a professor at Purdue University, who happened to be present in the legislature on the day it went up for a vote.
Ah, the good (not really, but bear with me) old days where even the crazies would listen to experts…
Also, this is brilliant:
the Speaker accepted another member’s recommendation to refer the bill to the Committee on Swamplands, where the bill could “find a deserved grave”