Mobile phones and bees: shoddy research helps no one
Click the link above for an excellent and well-reasoned breakdown of why a recent scare-story suggesting mobile phones could be responsible for current falling bee populations in the US is a load of rubbish (via telegraph.co.uk).
It’s important for scientists to gather and analyse as much data as possible, yet the media often reports stories as fact when they have an extremely questionable scientific basis. If you found the article interesting and you’d like to read more of this sort of thing (using sound logic and scientific principles to consider how reliable a scare story may be), I suggest you take a look at Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science blog.
POSTED Thursday June 10th
About Me
A blog for Room F1.12. I set this up because it's unbelievable to me that we don't use communications technology more (and more intelligently) in teaching and I wanted to try to improve that situation. I'll be collecting various pieces of information here relevant to courses, as well as interesting links for further investigation.Use the Comments link at the end of each section to discuss the story/homework. All comments are moderated.
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