The March 2024 issue of The Skeptic has been published, with a special feature on how to cope with science: teaching students skills as much as facts; the positives and negatives of media coverage and how culpable the media are in spreading sometimes dangerous pseudoscience; and understanding that famous Razor.
There is also an in-depth look at the Bermuda Triangle, the “mystery that refuses to die”, despite years of detailed investigation and debunking. Plus the litany of dodgy health gadgets you can find in the marketplace, the acid/alkali dilemma, and a lot more.
You can read a sample article from the issue in which Melanie Trecek-King looks at how it’s just as – if not more – important to teach skills as much as facts when dealing with science and differentiating it from pseudoscience.
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