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About the Spotting Mis/Disinformation Project

The Story Behind the Science website is the result of multiple projects coming together with one central purpose: to provide deeply researched, engaging stories of major science topics that explicitly highlight how science works, how scientists think, and the often messy process that leads to the development of scientific knowledge.

The Spotting Mis/Disinformation project [summary]

Project Title: The Story Behind the Pseudoscience: Promoting Informed Socioscientific Decision-Making

Scope: Produce 12 short stories and support materials on socioscientific issues for undergraduate college students.

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Partial support for this work was provided by the National Science Foundation's Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program under Award No. 0618446.

Project Team

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Dr. Benjamin C. Herman
Science Education
Principal Investigator

 

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Dr. Michael P. Clough
Science Education

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Dr. Joanna Goodey Pellois
Chemistry

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Dr. Asha Rao
Biology

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Dr. Tamara Powers
Chemistry

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Joe Taylor
M.S., Science Education
Webmaster, Editor

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