{"id":4511,"date":"2009-03-11T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T04:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philosophyforchildren.org\/update-on-the-science-fair\/"},"modified":"2009-03-11T21:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T04:16:00","slug":"update-on-the-science-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plato-philosophy.org\/update-on-the-science-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on the Science Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an earlier <a href=\"http:\/\/philosophyforchildren.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/science-fair-and-ethics_18.html\">post<\/a>, I wrote about an ethical dilemma that some of the fifth grade students with whom I&#8217;ve been working were facing regarding the upcoming Science Fair. The students told me today that they had decided that the experiment they had been considering was too fraught with ethical problems for them to be comfortable with it. They&#8217;ve chosen something related to plants instead!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an earlier post, I wrote about an ethical dilemma that some of the fifth grade students with whom I&#8217;ve been working were facing regarding the upcoming Science Fair. 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