The Common Misconception Of The Scientific Community

Joel Achenbach, the author of the article, “Why Do Reasonable People Doubt Science?” starts of by saying that in today's era the people often disagree with scientific reasoning. The world we live in today is so full of problems it's hard to tell what is real anymore. The decision is left to the individual to decide what to believe is true or false, and then how there going to put their beliefs into action. Achenbach later explains in his article that the scientific method pushes back all the opinions and unfolds the real truth.

It is important to appreciate the current nature and status of the world because there are individuals who laid the appropriate foundation for it. As Michael Specter’s TED Talk on The Danger of Science Denial, he outlined the challenges that might emanate from science denial. There are reason that ought to be checked critically since they affect the current and future generation and these include health, wealth, mobility, opportunity and declining rates of diseases. It is critically clear that Specter performs a very relevant and excellent job to the desired audience by discussing emphatically on important issues that affect the current world. He poses a challenge to the audience to basically look at the world at its normality despite looking at it from skepticism side of it. The skepticism tend to affect the smart decision technique in the modern society as it relates to The Danger of Science Denial. He logically asks the Americans and international TED talk fans to analyze effectively the desired big picture besides both logical and ethical picture. He asked the audience to emphatically compare the pictures broadly and identify the worst picture. This could assist the audience to come up with the right decision regarding their perception of current world to the future generation.

Within the article titled “The Mistrust of Science” by Atul Gawande, the article is a written document of an address at the California Institute of Technology and describes the connection of science to every single human on Earth. This is done because the presenter defines science as “a systematic way of thinking” since science allows humans to contemplate beyond the information being given to them at any time, such as the questions may follow of how, when, where, why, and how? The presenter states the opinion that, no matter what major you are declared as or the type of occupation you hold, science is embedded into the way you are living, despite you not having any knowledge of certain science topics.

The scientific method continues to be misrepresented in public schools all over the world. Students are being taught that there is a beginning and an end to the scientific method, and that everything in between is protocol and must be followed chronologically. “Ask a question, do some research, come up with a hypothesis, conduct an experiment, understand your data, make your conclusion!” a grade six science teacher will tell their students. “It’ll be on your quiz!”. However, what those students are not being taught is that the scientific method has never been, and will never be a linear process. Scientists constantly revisit different steps of the process in order to better understand the subject matter; sometimes it can take many years to

Where the World Wars and commercialization allowed aviation to develop from the Wrights’ simple aircraft, to large commercial plane, to extremely complex military aircraft. Today, reorganized to form NASA, its main goal is the advancement of space technology and the human exploration of space. Using the private companies to commercialize low-orbit travel and the development of better rocketry, NASA can focus on deep exploration. NASA believes that commercialization is not only a method to be cost effective, but help raise the number of crew aboard the ISS, provide new economic frontiers in space travel, and brings the frontier to civilians. In the near future, with the aid of space commercialization and NASA research, astronauts and spacecraft will become independent of Earth. Meaning, that astronauts and spacecraft will no longer need to reenter Earth’s orbit for resupplies, but are able to self-sustain their systems. This will enable humanity to push further into the depths of space, beyond the asteroid belt or even

One of the interesting things I have learned from Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science is how significant it is to know the difference between science and pseudoscience. As Goldacre discusses, most people see science as an authority not a method (Goldacre, page 3); so they mistakenly confuse market-based pseudoscientific products with science. Science is about experimental methods and testing specific hypothesis by controlling conditions to see the effects of studied factors. Pseudoscience, in contrast, ignores experimental methods, takes advantage of the science name, and justify its findings by shifting into untestable positions (Goldacre, page 7). The emergence of detox products (Goldacre, page 4), brain gym (Goldacre, page 15), homeopathy (Goldacre, page 30) and other types of alternative therapies are good examples. One key point here is the importance of experimental methods. One way to find out the basic of science, we need to disprove pseudoscientific claims (Goldacre, page 3) and it is done thorough experimental methods.

W: What are sceptics? Sceptics are those who believe we have not come to the final answer, so they continue to research and learn about it to no end (185). This state in sceptics is perpetuated by uncertainty in a final answer, so further pondering and research is done on it (185).

In the first part of this article it explains how dogma has trumped science. Through the couse of this first section it explains the idea of the Bering Strait theory. This is a highly controversal theory that states that Paleoindians walked from Asia over an anciant land bridge about 15,000 years ago. To many people this theory is rock solid but to some it is an insult. There are some breaks in the theory, one being that there is a gap in time that is unaccounted for. Some say that they settled into the land bridge then once again moved, but this is not for certian. There was even a term coined for die-hard archaeologists who insist upon Clovis as representing the earliest culture of North America. They were called the "Clovis Police". The

Formerly, many spacecraft were sent up at an enormous cost – around $22,000 per kg (Bonsor, 2000). Then the idea of building a space elevator (illustrated by Image 1) that carries people into space first came to mind. Many organisations such as NASA, spend time investigating this possibility. If it can be built, then “a passenger with baggage at 150 kg might cost only $222” (NASA Science - Science News, 2000). Along with the discovery of the ideal material, the idea of the space elevator became more and more realistic and accomplishable. Three years ago, a Japanese company announced that they are able to build a space elevator by 2050. Although there are obvious benefits, the downside of this project is also significant and worrying, such as the cost

Instead of moving forward with technology we are using technology that has been present but just redesigning and improving it. My intention here is that with private companies trying to find methods of making their own advance method of exploring space, it is evident that they plan to charge people to take them on these space travels. For example, Musk is making the airframe completely renovated with special welding, ‘stir welding,’ and Dragon, which are great ideas. With the progress of private companies, it is evident that we are getting closer to sending humans to space.

The world today revolves around technology and is in an ever upward spiraling path of new advancements. This path is now at what some people call the “final frontier”, or the space age. The discoveries being made on this front are overwhelming in comparison to the technology that the world had only twenty years ago. Space exploration was once left up to the governments, as they battled to be the first country in space, but with national debts raising and the cuts made in response, space exploration is beginning to become new grounds for private business owners. Private companies are already beginning to send off rockets at a fraction of the cost that government does, but if more money was put into the government space program, then they

In their article, “Science Alone Is Not Always Enough: The Importance of Ethical Assessment for a More Comprehensive View of Equine Welfare,” Camie R. Heleski and Raymond Anthony explain how science does not always explain a horse’s behavior and welfare. One point I find interesting is that this article states that there is an interplay between science and value when dealing with horses. The authors also explain how our ethics can also help enhance the welfare of show horses. This article will help my research because it describes different ways to help the horses living the show life and sop those who would want to abuse

Science and Pseudoscience differ in many ways. Science uses experimentation to accept or reject the hypothesis being tested while pseudoscience only looks for evidence to support the hypothesis often ignoring conflicting evidence. In science reproducible results are required before coming to a conclusion while in pseudoscience will often fail to successfully reproduce similar results. Science also argues with scientific information based of experimentation while pseudoscience lacks scientific evidence when supporting ideas. All and all the two contrast in many ways these being some of the most prominent.

Since we first sent rockets into Earths orbit, we have been pushing the technological boundaries in order to reach new

Although the Space Elevator will not make trips to space faster, it will make trips to space more frequent and it will open up space to a new era of development. Perhaps the biggest factor propelling the idea of a space elevator is that it would significantly lower the cost of putting cargo into space. Although slower than the chemically propelled space shuttle, the lifters reduce launch costs from $10,000 to $20,000 per pound, to approximately $400 per pound. This dramatic drop of expense required to traverse space would finally allow private investors to invest in a new area, known as “space production”. For example, titanium produced in earth’s environment has a maximum tensile strength of 200,000 psi but in the zero gravity of space “in theory” the tensile strength of titanium can be increased to over 500,000 psi. In addition, titanium will be much easier to manipulate in space thereby giving rise to new applications—with double strength.