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    • Atomic Tomatoes Are Not the Only Fruit Open site in a new window - Ben Goldacre names the winners of the 2004 Bad Science awards.
    • Bad Astronomy Open site in a new window - Righting wrong ideas. Addresses astronomical and scientific misconceptions spread by movies, TV, the news, and popular beliefs.
    • Bad Astronomy Blog Open site in a new window - Phil Plait's blog addressing space science, NASA missions, bad astronomy, and attacks on science.
    • Bad Geology Open site in a new window - Offering a skeptical investigation of poor, misleading, and incompetent interpretations of alleged anomalistic, paranormal, and supernatural geological phenomena.
    • Bad Meteorology Open site in a new window - 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.
    • Bad Science Open site in a new window[*] - Explains well understood phenomena which are persistently presented incorrectly, because they don't know any better or because they don't really care enough.
    • Bad Science or, Some Lists Useful in Dealing With Questionable Science Open site in a new window - Takes a look at what bad science is, and how can it be avoided.
    • badphysics.info Open site in a new window - Offers clarification on commonly misunderstood physics principles.
    • Dispelling Some Common Myths About Science Open site in a new window - Inviting attention to some extreme beliefs about science that are very common, but mostly wrong or misleading.
    • Good Math, Bad Math Open site in a new window - Mark Chu-Carroll's blog dedicated to finding the fun in good math; shredding bad math and squashing the crackpots who espouse it.
    • Guardian Unlimited: Bad Science Open site in a new window - Weekly column dedicated to ferreting out false and missleading sceintific claims that work their way into popular culture.
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    • Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics Open site in a new window - Discusses how movie scenes disregard the laws of physics.
    • Modern Myths Taught As Science Open site in a new window - Gives examples of scientific concepts that have been oversimplified for kids to the point of becoming a falsehood.
    • Most Popular Myths in Science, The Open site in a new window - LiveScience takes a look at a number of strange notions that have worked their way into our popular conscious as scientific fact.
    • Science Myths in K-6 Textbooks and Popular Culture Open site in a new window - Collection of links and articles highlighting how misconceptions and errors of fact work their way into textbooks.
    • Wikipedia: Bad Science Open site in a new window - Defines the term that commonly refers to either substandard scientific methods or to findings that have been arrived at by such methods.
    		 



     
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