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  • Bad Science [*]
    Explains well understood phenomena which are persistently presented incorrectly, because they don't know any better or because they don't really care enough.
    www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/BadScience.html
  • Bad Astronomy [pick] [read review]
    Righting wrong ideas. Addresses astronomical and scientific misconceptions spread by movies, TV, the news, and popular beliefs.
    www.badastronomy.com
  • Bad Meteorology
    Provides a resource for teachers to help them prevent mistakes when teaching Meteorology. Goes over several common errors, and their correct explanations, and gives a FAQ page for general bad info.
    www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/BadMeteorology.html
  • Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics [pick] [read review]
    Discusses how movie scenes disregard the laws of physics.
    www.intuitor.com/moviephysics
  • Ig Nobel Prize@
    dir.yahoo.com/.../Scientific_Research/Ig_Nobel_Prize
  • Bad Astronomy Blog
    Phil Plait's blog addressing space science, NASA missions, bad astronomy, and attacks on science.
    www.badastronomy.com/bablog
  • badphysics.info
    Offers clarification on commonly misunderstood physics principles.
    www.badphysics.info
  • Science Myths in K-6 Textbooks and Popular Culture
    Collection of links and articles highlighting how misconceptions and errors of fact work their way into textbooks.
    www.amasci.com/miscon/miscon.html
  • Good Math, Bad Math
    Mark Chu-Carroll's blog dedicated to finding the fun in good math; shredding bad math and squashing the crackpots who espouse it.
    goodmath.blogspot.com
  • Wikipedia: Bad Science
    Defines the term that commonly refers to either substandard scientific methods or to findings that have been arrived at by such methods.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_science
  • Guardian Unlimited: Bad Science
    Weekly column dedicated to ferreting out false and missleading sceintific claims that work their way into popular culture.
    www.guardian.co.uk/life/badscience
  • Atomic Tomatoes Are Not the Only Fruit
    Ben Goldacre names the winners of the 2004 Bad Science awards.
    www.guardian.co.uk/life/badscience/story/0,12980,1374213,00.html
  • Bad Geology
    Offering a skeptical investigation of poor, misleading, and incompetent interpretations of alleged anomalistic, paranormal, and supernatural geological phenomena.
    www.badgeology.com
  • Dispelling Some Common Myths About Science
    Inviting attention to some extreme beliefs about science that are very common, but mostly wrong or misleading.
    dharma-haven.org/science/dispelling-myth-magical-science.htm
  • Bad Science or, Some Lists Useful in Dealing With Questionable Science
    Takes a look at what bad science is, and how can it be avoided.
    www.catchpenny.org/patho.html
  • Most Popular Myths in Science, The
    LiveScience takes a look at a number of strange notions that have worked their way into our popular conscious as scientific fact.
    www.livescience.com/bestimg/?cat=myths
 



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