Pamela Winnick is a journalist and author who has written about the intersection of science, education, and public policy. She contributed articles to The Weekly Standard in 2005 and 2006, covering topics such as science education in textbooks and cloning controversies. She is the author of 'A Survey of Junk Science and the American Legal System' and has written on science-related issues for various publications.
ON JANUARY 12, THE renowned journal Science retracted two articles written by South Korean scientist Woo-Suk Hwang, one published in February 2004 and a related piece--this one with an American "senior author"--published in May 2005. Both papers detailed an astonishing breakthrough in cloning…
SEVERAL CENTURIES AGO, some "very light-skinned" people were shipwrecked on a tropical island. After "many years under the tropical sun," this light-skinned population became "dark-skinned," says Biology: The Study of Life, a high-school textbook published in 1998 by Prentice Hall, an imprint of…