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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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 Posted - 05/01/2006 : 08:50:47
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Check out this entry over on a blog called "Live Grenades," a portion of which reads,Berating a sixth grader would do no one any good, and certainly wouldn't fix the broken science education system on display. Very true, although I think flogging the judges who gave the project an honorable mention might make some folks feel better.
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
 Posted - 05/01/2006 : 18:26:30 [Permalink]
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In effect, that kid's Science Fair project was simply him/her saying, "Fuck science."
That at any level this "project" was taken seriously says volumes about the idiocy of the judges.
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JohnOAS
SFN Regular
Australia
800 Posts |
Posted - 05/01/2006 : 18:31:02 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Dave W.
I think flogging the judges who gave the project an honorable mention might make some folks feel better.
Absolutely.
While most places have laws preventing you from vetting someone from becoming a science teacher based on religious beliefs (and rightly so, at least in broad terms), surely there could be few cunningly designed questions hidden in form "42C: application to become a Science Fair Judge", e.g.
Q1: The Scientific Method is best described as:
A. The preferred way to figure stuff out.
B. OK, if the answer isn't already given in a religious text of some sort.
C. An abomination unto the lord.
Q2: John is an atheist, his friend Jim and Jim's sister are catholic. What can we infer from this?
A. Statistically, nearly 67% of people believe in god.
B. Theists and non-theists can actually get along.
C. They're all going to hell.
Q3: Two cancer sufferers are part of a study. One eats only corn flakes for breakfast. The second puts sliced banana on their corn flakes. The second patient's cancer goes into remission, the first patient's condition worsens. What are the evident causal relationships?
A. Banana's (in moderation) cure cancer.
B. None, you're a fruit loop.
C. I'd really need to know what brand of milk they used to make that determination.
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R.Wreck
SFN Regular
USA
1191 Posts |
Posted - 05/01/2006 : 19:03:18 [Permalink]
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Maybe the kid went to the wrong science fair. |
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marfknox
SFN Die Hard
USA
3739 Posts |
Posted - 05/01/2006 : 19:16:33 [Permalink]
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R. Wreck wrote: quote:
Maybe the kid went to the wrong science fair.
So I know that Objective Ministries is a fake outfit, but did they actually conduct a science fair, or are the pictures from something else? Anyone know? |
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moakley
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 05/01/2006 : 19:20:30 [Permalink]
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