The False Crisis in Science Education

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Douglas Fox writes about biology, geology and climate science from California. He wrote the November 2022 article “The Coming Collapse,” which revealed that Antarctica’s Thwaites Ice Shelf could splinter apart in less than a decade.

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W. Wayt Gibbs is a contributing editor for Scientific American based in Seattle. He also works as a scientific editor at Intellectual Ventures.

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This article was originally published with the title “The False Crisis in Science Education” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 281 No. 4 (October 1999)
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