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Fake Science 101

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Science is one of those topics it seems you either get or you don’t. If you fall in the latter category, you might have wished at some point – maybe during a high school physics test – that you could just make up the answers and get credit for being clever.   Well, our next guest makes his living doing exactly that. Phil Edwards is the author behind the Fake Scienceblog, and a new sort of textbook called Fake Science 101. We wanted to know more about the not-so scientific method of conjuring up facts, so we tracked him down to tell us about it.

Breaking: Fake Science 101 banned from Texas school district.

Rebecca oversees the team that makes NHPR podcasts, including Outside/In and Civics 101. She has previously served as NHPR's Director of Audience & Engagement, Digital Director, and Senior Producer for Word of Mouth.
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