competing against the world in Science

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<p>Interesting article about our States’ Failing grades in Teaching science. </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/08/education/08schools.html?th=&adxnnl=1&emc=th&adxnnlx=1134051446-ymLnz/rm7eOexxgfzO6SEw[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/08/education/08schools.html?th=&adxnnl=1&emc=th&adxnnlx=1134051446-ymLnz/rm7eOexxgfzO6SEw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>No big surprise since they gave up teaching math decades ago.</p>

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<p>In the US science and math are left more for college. There are plenty of both in colleges.</p>

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<p>This trend also explains why so much of the public is readily fooled by junk science and pseudoscience.</p>

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<p>Even a lot of real science turns out to be junk 20 years later. “Sleeper” was more fact than fiction.</p>