> > What I want is a book explosing all the lies in math and > > science texts. I was really, really annoyed when I learned > > the truth about pendulums.... This line makes me chuckle because I can see someone writing a Lovecraftian short story on The Hideous Truth About Pendulums. >Hmm... I'd be interested in that type of book as well. Let >me know if you find one. In my opinion, the biggest problem with science education isn't the propogation of "lies", so much (although there are a number of common errors that school texts tend to propogate) but that science classes don't really tend to teach the methodology of science so much as a series of disconnected facts. [1] As a consequence, most people tend to think of science as being a huge catalog of facts about this or that without really appreciating that it is actually a process and that one of the by-products of that process is the production of information about the world. -- Andrew Lias [1] At least not until you get into more advanced course-work which many students never get exposed to. _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail