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 re-airing On Saturday, November 11 at 8:00 am
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I did not intend to record this, since it looked like one of those “reenactors” events that I generally don’t see as worthy of attention.
However, I did get part of it b/c the first [...]

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Does Wells’s Promiscuously Incorrect Guide give us a vehicle for considering, and improving, the quality of science education for the population of non-scientists?

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Teach the controversies, YES!, but with the essential proviso that the questions with which students will be critically engaged must be the REAL QUESTIONS and REAL CONTROVERSIES in the subjects they are studying.

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Maybe all students would be better off if they could use wiki-style textbooks developed by, say, scientists and science teachers, or historians and history teachers, instead of the textbooks being marketed by commercial publishers.

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Is this the answer to why they hate air conditioning? See
http://tonywhitson.edublogs.org/2006/09/04/whycreationistrepublicansshateairconditioning/

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For the (revealed) truth that thoracic surgeons need to know, this is one video you don’t want to miss. See http://tonywhitson.edublogs.org/2006/09/04/thoracic-science-revealed/ .

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