“… one of the most detrimental (and least discussed) effects of the crisis in science education in the world today is that we are creating a population increasingly unable to think skeptically about a wide range of issues.”

— Andrew Fraknoi

in Science Education and the Crisis of Gullibility, in an edition by [Eric Chaisson, Tae-Chang Kim, The thirteenth labor, CRC Press, 1999, 9057005387, 71]

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