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Food is My Medicine SSEP: Background

Summer 2019: M. Kulp

Wikipedia - Beware

BEWARE: Can provide useful background information, but be a critical user of this information. Evaluate and verify.

Contentious Science Topics on Wikipedia Subject to Editing Mishchief
by Meghan Rose, Science News [188;7, Oct. 3, 2015, p. 5.]

Encyclopedias & Other Resources

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Access Science by McGraw-Hill
Over 8500 articles, 115,000 dictionary terms, and hundreds of Research Updates in all areas of science and technology.
Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia
Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 5th ed.
Britannica Online Full content including over 80,000 in-depth articles, detailed maps, multimedia, and research tools.
Encyclopedias @ Smith

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