The Majority Of Americans Believes This Story Is Literally True

The statistics are sobering, "Because for 60 percent of Americans it is literally, word-for-word true. For Protestants, that figure is 73 percent. For Evangelicals, it’s 87 percent."  This should be the Poster Child for our crisis of science illiteracy.

The Leaky Noah’s Ark Tale (part 1 of 2)

The Leaky Noah's Ark Tale (part 2 of 2)

A Complete Rebuttal To The Anti-Vaccination Crowd And Then Some

This article not only is a complete rebuttal to all of claims of anti-vaccination people, it also has some excellent links on how to evaluate and understand scientific literature in general.

Dear parents, you are being lied to.

There May Be A Good Reason You Don't Understand Something

"The next time you hear something you don't understand, ask for clarification. You don't have to be apologetic about it, and the situation doesn't have to be confrontational. Those with science and facts and evidence on their side will be happy to explain what they mean. If the speaker cannot explain what he is talking about in plain language--or without resorting to other, even less clear terms and concepts--that's a warning sign that there's confusion on both ends of the line."

The Wisdom of Not Understanding

A Course For Science Educators

 One-hour webinar on YouTube

NCSE's Dealing with Controversy in the Science Classroom

Scientific Literacy, Part Two

http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/real-scientific-literacy-part-ii/

Scientific Literacy, Part One

http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/real-scientific-literacy/

Scientific Illiteracy: A Tragedy Of Our Times

“One of the great tragedies of modern society is that we have politicians cherry-picking science in the interests of their own social, cultural, political and religious belief systems, and that’s the beginning of the end of an informed democracy.”

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/aug/04/neil-degrasse-tyson-on-qa-calls-scientific-illiteracy-a-tragedy-of-our-times?CMP=share_btn_tw

Science Literacy

This will make you reconsider what is science literacy.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/fayeflam/2015/07/27/what-the-science-literacy-police-get-wrong-about-science/