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A few weeks ago I put up a post on Were you lied to in your genetics class? . At the time I thought it was just a fringe view being expresse...

How can you possibly be against a book devoted to refuting misinformation about Charles Darwin and his views on evolution? This is an anthol...

There's a disturbing trend in popular science these days. The goal is to convince the general public that much of what we thought we kne...

Scite Assistant is billed as "your AI research partner" and as "ChatGPT for researchers." It's supposed to draw on ...

The Teacher Institute for Evolutonary Science (TIES) is an organization dedicated to helping teachers explain evolution. A good teac...

On June 3, 2024,the New York Times published an opinion piece by Alina Chan in which she promoted the lab leak conspiracy theory about the ...

That's part of the title of podcast by Kat Arney who interviews Matthew Cobb [ Double helix double crossing? What really happened betwee...

The November 16th issue of Nature has an article about ChatGPT: ChatGPT has entered the classroom: how LLMs could transform education . It ...

Science in School is a magazine for European science teachers. Two graduate students 1 have just published an article in the November issu...

Here are a few questions for ChatGPT and its answers. The AI program takes the most common information on the web and spews it back at you. ...

New names for very large and very small weights and sizes have been adopted. Last November's meeting of the General Conference on ...

Don't bother trying to reason with a publisher. All of them have different views on proper style and every single one of them is absolut...

There's a lot of talk about ChatGPT and how it can prepare lectures and get good grades on undergraduate exams. However, ChatGPT is only...

So many books ... so little time.

I just read an annoying article in Boston Review: The Inflated Promise of Science Education . It was written by Catarina Dutilh Novaes, a Pr...

Here's an example of a press release that distorts science by promoting incorrect information that is not found in the actual publicatio...

I used to think that Wikipedia was a pretty good source of information even for scientific subjects. It wasn't perfect, but most of the ...

Science editors asked young scientists to imagine what kind of course they would have created if they could go back to a time before the pa...

Here's an interesting presentation by Sean B. Carroll, the evolutionary biologist and author of several books on evolution. He's als...

Rama Singh, 1 a biology professor at McMaster Universtiy in Hamilton (Ontario, Canada) has just published an interesting article on The Con...