Royal road to science?

The Royal Society should be ashamed of itself. For remarks which (the Society allows) have been misinterpreted, Michael Reiss has to go. What did he say, begorrah? This:

Just because something lacks scientific support doesn't seem to me a sufficient reason to omit it from the science lesson... There is much to be said for allowing students to raise any doubts they have - hardly a revolutionary idea in science teaching - and doing one's best to have a genuine discussion.

Not a scandalous pedagogic practice, one would have thought, and not the same thing as teaching creationism. Royal Society fellow Sir Richard Roberts is quoted here as follows:

I think it is outrageous that this man is suggesting that creationism should be discussed in a science classroom.

It just goes to show you how easily some people can be outraged. Discussed!