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 9:26 AM

Originally posted:
March 17, 2003

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

About this issue's author

Dr. John Richard Schrock is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Emporia State University.  He specializes in science communication, biology education, and insect ecology of disturbed lands.  He is a member of the Education subcommittee of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP).