ABOUT THIS ISSUE
- about KSN
- about the author

IN THIS ISSUE
- introduction
- is it science or pseudoscience?
- what about the "scientific method?"
- look at real science research and how it was done
- use reality in everyday teaching
- require "reasoning" in coursework
- general classroom strategies
- preposterous plants
- twenty "science attitudes"
- water dousing with willow or other y-shaped plant roots or branches
- breeding extinct mammoths from frozen mammoth egg cells
- the "hundredth monkey phenomenon"
- animals out-of-range
- extinct critters
- types of evidence for animals
- references
- sources for practice recognizing science and pseudoscience
- strange but true

This page was last modified:
March 19, 2003 11:58 AM

Originally posted:
March 17, 2003

Pseudoscience of Animals and Plants
A Teacher's Guide to Non-Scientific Beliefs
by John Richard Schrock

Published by EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY

Prepared and Issued by THE DIVISION OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Editor: ROBERT F. CLARKE

Editorial Committee: TOM EDDY, GILBERT A. LEISMAN, GAYLEN NEUFELD, JOHN RICHARD SCHROCK

Circulation (this issue): 1600

Printed by: ESU Press

Online edition designed by: TERRI WEAST

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