Re: Nature of Science (NOS)

[Larry Woolf <Larry.Woolf@GAT.COM>]

At 11:21 AM -0700 9/1/2002, Hugh Haskell wrote:

> Which is why I offered it as a hypothesis for testing. If not the
> education departments, where? Of the scientists among my acquaintance
> *none* espouses the simple minded view of "scientific method" that we
> decry here? Could it be the engineering schools? Inquiring minds want
> to know.

As a science fair judge but not a science fair proponent, I would suggest
that the science fairs are the single most active promoter of this concept.
Take a look at the required format of your local middle or high school
science fair or many web sites such as:

http://www.scifair.org/articles/sm.shtml


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