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The Dragon in My Garage by Carl Sagan (1995)

This short essay is a chapter in Sagan's 1995 book The Demon-Haunted World to teach and popularize the concept of falsifiability. The idea is proposed and scaffolded by ad hoc reasoning so that the goalposts of testing are always shifting. 

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Science checklist: An Understanding Science infographic

This resource developed by the UC Berkeley's Museum of Paleontology helps science educators distinguish science as a special way of knowing, as a human endeavour different from other human endeavours.

Of note is the inclusion of the last two steps--involves the scientific community and...Read more

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