Re: Centrifuge in "World Book"

[Jack Uretsky <jlu@HEP.ANL.GOV>]

Hi all-
        I think that <World Book> is particularly bad.  I have seen what
I believe to be gross misinformation on such topics as the date of the
last ice age and the evidence for the earliest human habitation of the
Americas.  It is a pity that it is the encyclopedia of choice in the
lower grades.
                                Regards,
                                                Jack


On Sun, 20 May 2001, John Clement wrote:

> After perusing the article on centrifugal force in the Wold Book
> Encyclopedia, I glanced at the centrifuge article.  It says it "causes the
> heavier liquid or the solid particles to move to the bottom of the
> container, leaving the lighter substances on the top."  Don't they have any
> good scientists on their staff to proofread this stuff!
>
> One wonders how any student can learn science when this sort of nonsense is
> published in both the texts and the encyclopedias.
>
> John M. Clement
> Houston, TX

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