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Is Scientific American a Trustworthy Periodical?

September 13, 2018

Scientific American is a monthly magazine aimed at popularizing scientific and technological findings. But how trustworthy a magazine is it?

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Matt L on Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post)
Other similar cases are the (private) College of Idaho (which was for a while Albertson College and then Albertson College of Idaho before switching back to the original…
Charles Pigden on Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post)
Oh just a note for those interested. Hook's side of the Hook /Russell spat can be found in Shapiro ed. The Letters of Sydney Hook, pp 246-253. I…
Charles Pigden on Overwhelming Cheating
To Bryan Frances 1) At Cambridge in the late 1970s when I was an undergraduate our entire mark was dependent the end-of-year exams. We were expected write weekly essays…
Charles Pigden on Analytic Philosophy and McCarthyism: A New Look (guest post)
Thank you Sander for your thoughtful response. I am glad to find that – in the view of a real expert – my speculative hypothesis may have at…
Nicolas Delon on Overwhelming Cheating
I remember being taken aback when I started teaching in the US and a student asked me if I could review the draft of her term paper. I…
Nicolas Delon on Overwhelming Cheating
Most of my classes were like that in France. It may still be true of most classes in the humanities.
Meme on Overwhelming Cheating
Students sneak into your office and weight the dice. What now?!
Chris on Overwhelming Cheating
I roll a die for each student: 1 is an "A"; 2 is a "B" etc. That determines their grade, completely. I tell them it is a metaphor…
Kate on Overwhelming Cheating
This is very common in the UK. One of my classes is graded 100% a single essay. Another 2 semester class is 50% 3hour exam 50% essay. There…
praymont on Overwhelming Cheating
His younger brother, Ted Kennedy, was expelled from Harvard for two years for cheating on an exam in 1951.
historygrrrl on Overwhelming Cheating
The two exam format was not uncommon when I was an undergraduate in the US in the late 90s/early 2000s. They were bluebook exams, no study guide or…
historygrrrl on Overwhelming Cheating
From Michigan State University (https://online.msu.edu/online-students): "Online and hybrid courses may require regularly scheduled classroom time or face-to-face contact (for requirements such as exams, labs, etc.). Such requirements will…
Gary Bartlett on Overwhelming Cheating
I admit I was a bit puzzled about why you were continuing to pepper me with questions! No worries. Yes, this is pretty hardcore. It's been a huge…
Michael Gorman on Overwhelming Cheating
Gary, I'm so sorry. I somehow missed your reference to your blog post, even though it's right there!! SMH. Gotcha. That's a pretty hardcore way of doing it,…
Holothurian on Overwhelming Cheating
In Cormac McCarthy's Stella Maris, the protagonist claims that Carl Jung cheated on the mathematics portion of his university entry exam. I'm not sure whether that's historically true…

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Is Scientific American a Trustworthy Periodical?