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Fear them: students writing on the web again

By pharyngula on October 6, 2010.

Once again, my developmental biology students generate some science content for the web.

They also address the minor contretemps that arose last time over the fact that they are competent to handle themselves on the web. Rev. Frost reassures us that he's not evil. But wouldn't he say that even if he were?

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