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Has anyone sued the textbook publishers for inaccuracies in the texts???
One current chemistry text said that "a hypothesis becomes a theory after it
has been well verified"
Apparently elementary teachers are telling students that you can't divide a
small number by a larger one, and this is still being said by students in
HS.
Oh, and climatologists were claiming that the arctic would take a long time
to become clear of ice, but recent evidence has pointed to an extremely
rapid melting of the arctic ice. Even at my age, I suspect I will see a
summer when the arctic is free of ice.
So in Britain they sue over global warming, and in the US over evolution.
Which is least worse???
John M. Clement
Houston, TX
BRITISH JUDGE QUESTIONS SOME OF GORE'S ARGUMENTS IN FILM
GUARDIAN - Al Gore's Oscar-winning documentary on global warming, An
Inconvenient Truth, was yesterday criticized by a high court judge who
highlighted what he said were "nine scientific errors" in the film. Mr
Justice Barton yesterday said that while the film was "broadly accurate"
in its presentation of climate change, he identified nine significant