Last year, a provocative study of the 12 most widely used physical science textbooks for middle schools and junior high schools gained renown for demonstrating that all of the books were riddled with errors of fact and failures of presentation (SN: 3/17/01, p. 168: Errant Texts). Physicist John L. Hubisz of North Carolina State University in Raleigh, who spearheaded that study, has just launched a Web site to pick up where the earlier analysis left off.
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