I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued.
But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, that is the heart of science.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Carl Sagan
(1934 - 1996)
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Prescribed Focus Areas & The Syllabus
Providing contexts related to conceptual meaning increases the opportunities students have of recognising that the concepts they are trying to understand are relevant to a number of situations other than those immediately apparent to them. Each of the amazing claims used in the Mystery Investigators' show, ties in with the science syllabus.
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