Have you ever wondered how good or bad the education of chiropractors and osteopaths is? Well, I have – and this new paper promises to provide an answer. The aim ofthis study...
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The following voting guide was created by students enrolled in a math course at Garfield High School in Seattle, Washington, taught by WAESN board director, Shraddha Shirude,...
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The least-used app on my phone is “phone.” The diverse functionality of the smartphone—texting, talking, video streaming, gaming, social networking—has changed the way we work,...
04/19/2023
What happens when you smash three EDUProtocols into one? You get an alternative assessment that gets your students talking about the book they are reading in your class. The...
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Guide to the Most Common Cognitive Biases and Heuristics 4 Comments Our brains have to process an infinite amount of stimuli and make an endless number of decisions. So to save...
04/18/2023
In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, posts and videos promoting natural remedies for the virus—everything from steam inhalation to ginger—proliferated online. What...
04/18/2023
Superstition and pseudoscience extend back to the dawn of civilization. In Mesopotamia—the birthplace of writing and recorded history—illnesses were “treated” by offering...
04/18/2023
Thank you, Kourtney, Alison, Traci and Tamara. Today, we once again grieve for families shattered by senseless gun violence. Please join me in a moment of silence for the lives...
04/17/2023
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Almost exactly one year ago, I made a video in which I...
01/20/2023
Culture How Science Fuels a Culture of Misinformation We tend to blame the glut of disinformation in science on social media and the news, but the problem often starts with the...
06/17/2022
Critical Thinking Science and Medicine Science and the Media Are medical errors really the third most common cause of death in the U.S.? (2019 edition) The claim that medical...
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Ten Health and Wellness Buzzwords Every Skeptic Should Know Tweet The word rhetoric, derived from the Greek noun “rhetor” meaning “speaker,” was once considered the art of...
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