Volume 35, Number 4 - April 1989
Pseudoscience of Animals and Plants

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Pseudoscience of Animals and Plants
by John Richard Schrock

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