> -----Original Message----- > From: Gaertk at aol.com [mailto:Gaertk at aol.com] > Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 3:14 PM > To: dragaera at dragaera.info > Subject: Re: Favorite NON-fiction > > > In a message dated 1/27/2003 12:52:08 PM Eastern Standard > Time, Chris Olson - SunPS <Chrisf.Olson at Sun.COM> writes: > > >> >_____ - _Lies My Teacher Told Me_ > >> > >> This sort of thing exists? When I read _Science of > >> Discworld_ (by Pratchett, Stewart, and Cohen), they > >> discussed how school texts are full of "lies-to-students" > >> and why, but didn't have many examples or the true > >> explanations. > > > > Heh. Yes, it does exist. It's about history, > > mostly, and covers the things that your teachers > > never told you, and what they got wrong, and the > > lies they flat-out told you. > > Eh, I'll pass then... there's nothing unusual in claiming > history texts are biased, etc.... It's a big women's lib thing too. I had an entire course on Women in Science, for example, which I guess was supposed to counter all the lies being told in the other courses. My personal pet peeve is that Watson & Crick discovered the structure of DNA. They stole it from Rosalind Franklin, who died young of ovarian cancer and so never had a chance to raise a big stink. I know you weren't particularly curious about that but who am I to pass up the opportunity? :) Rachel