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Why Do Students “Cook” Data? A Case Study on the Tenacity of Misconceptions

This paper describes an extraordinary example of data fabrication in which two students and their course instructor are so certain that they know how an experiment should turn out that they repeatedly dismiss contradictory data until they finally rep...

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Guest Editorial: To Reweave a Rainbow—Reflections on the Unity of Knowledge

An opinion piece about the "Unity of Knowledge."...

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The Paradigm Changes: But Do Our Students Know That? Tracking the Gradual and Continual Evolution of the Periodic Chart

Although Mendeleeff presented his periodic chart in a paper to the German Chemical Society in 1869, its acceptance was a gradual process. The changes in the chart and its movement to its present position inside the front cover of all texts is a perfe...