Yes, I totally agree with you

She didn't do the work at all. She may have wrote a wonderful agruement on the validity of a hoax article but never once did I see it metion her turning in an essay on a scientific article. Its the same as me writing a movie review about a book and hoping the teacher will pass me. Just like a book isn't the same as a movie a hoax article isn't the same as a scientific article.

Plus the teacher doesn't have to guarantee the students pass. Students must work and complete assignments following the criteria given in order to earn the right to pass. Your reasoning is what is responsible for letting students with a 5th grade education graduate from highschool.

Look at the second word in Science fiction for me. It clearly states it is not true. I can tell you have a second grader's understanding of true science. Let me educate you, in order to become a Scientific theory a hypothesis must be tested hundreds of times by various people and have the same outcome. Until then its just guess work. Take it from a chemistry major ebola zombies doesn't even constitute a hypothesis let alone a theory so no article about it is science in any form.

One doesn't have to teach to actually understand what science actually is. Or what the difference between science and science fiction is. One can actually pay attention in their basic science classes. Or be in higher education for a section of science too. Where it is drilled into us what a scientific hypothesis is, a scientific theory is, how real research is set up, what to look at and for in research articles. Also that yes, science does change with time, with technology that allows better use, understanding, manipulations, closer look at many many things. But, before anything becomes rigorously set as yes this is it, it has to be tested (and they test to try to disprove it not prove it) hundreds of times by many different people, to get the same consistent results. Science fiction is whatever your mind can make up and put onto paper, does not need any testing. See the difference??

Well, to be fair, the CDC started the zombie thing as a joke. They say in their website it was tongue-in-cheek. Then they saw they could use that theme to reach all kinds of people to prepare them for hazards. It's right there on their website, "you need to read up yourself".

But it doesn't become accepted as science until it is proven and so your argument is invalid.

please please please tell me that you do realize that the zombie preparedness part on the CDC is all tongue in cheek and was in part due to the huge popularity of zombies in pop culture. If you do not realize that, it is not our narrow mindedness we have to worry about, it is just what you believe to be real science.