[LYING LIFE: HOW LIFE DESIGNS LIES AND HOW LIES DESIGN LIFE]
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How School Science Lies
School science lies. It lies about Mendelian genetics, the peppered moth, male and female, the motion of a pendulum, the Bohr atom, the fluid model of electricity and many other basic concepts, all due to simplification. Real science relies on domain-specific models and so always lies at some level. Teachers thus need to help students appreciate how science interprets complexity and how to mana...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Siena Academy of Sciences
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2279-8811,2279-882X
DOI: 10.4081/jsas.2018.8535