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Re: Middle School Physical Science Texts: dishonesty



Hi all-
Which reminds me, perhaps the teacher who said "That's just the
way it is" was dealing with a particularly smart-alecky student. There
is, after all, considerable time pressure in primary and secondary school
classrooms.


On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Herbert H Gottlieb wrote:

On Tue, 06 Mar 2001 15:41:26 -0500 Robert Carlson <Raacc@AOL.COM> writes:
In a message dated 3/6/01 1:11:13 PM Central Standard Time,
rwolfson@SIU.EDU
writes:

Again, was the electron configuration she discussed wrong? Also, I
think there would be a number of Biologists that would disagree about
the
importance of chemistry in biology.

Ruth

How many biologists are likely to disagree? 10 ? 100? 1,000?
1,000,000??
Would the number of physicists be less, more, or the same as the number
of biologists who disagree?

Herb


Regards,
Jack
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