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The Great Fossil Fiasco: Teaching about Peer Review
by Nancy Gift (2000-2001 Fellow)
and Marianne Krasny


This acitivity explores peer review in science and how inappropriate use of peer review resulted in National Geographic retracting a published scientific "discovery" that turned out to be a hoax. The activity was developed into an article that was published in American Biology Teacher:

 

 

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