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In a cutting-edge development that has sent shockwaves through the scientific community, researchers at University College ...

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Summers is an associate professor of science education at the University of North Dakota. Scientific theory has had a rough ...

(Getty Images.) Scientific theory has had a rough time in America’s public schools. Almost 100 years ago, science teacher John Scopes was convicted of violating a Tennessee law that prohibited ...

A new peer-reviewed paper presents evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic started in a seafood market in Wuhan, China, where ...

Scientific theory has had a rough time in America’s public schools. Almost 100 years ago, science teacher John Scopes was convicted of violating a Tennessee law that prohibited teaching the ...

scientific theories as equivalent to ideas that lack scientific study. In 2012, legislators in Tennessee – the same state where the Scopes trial took place nearly a century ago – approved a ...

All scientific constructs or so-called theories are constructs of the mind. In that sense, we accept them just in terms of whatever evidence we can gather in their favor or against them.

Scientific theory has had a rough time in America’s public schools. The approach is not limited to evolution. Legislatures across the country are proposing or passing laws that purport to ...