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The Pursuit of Ignorance Strong Response In the TED talk, “The Pursuit of Ignorance,” Stuart Firestein makes the argument that there is this great misconception in the way that we study science. He describes the way we view the process of science today as, "a very well-ordered mechanism for understanding the world, for gaining facts, for gaining data." (Firestein 0:11 and 18:23) Although Firestein provides a convincing argument that modern science processes rely too much on facts instead of ignorance and new discovery, he fails to provide strong evidence that it should instead focus solely on the pursuit of ignorance.

The Usefulness of the Scientific Method The development of the scientific method in the late 1500’s to the early 1600’s was a crucial stepping-stone in the science community. The scientific method is based upon observations, hypotheses and experimentation. The concept is rather simple, and can be applied to many areas of study. Once an observation is made, the observer can make a hypothesis as to why that phenomenon occurs and can then design an experiment to prove whether or not that hypotheses is valid. Although the scientific method has been extremely useful in the discovery of various things from usages of medications to studying animal behavior, there are still those who question the usage of this tool. These critics claim that since

Undoubtedly, humanity and modern civilization would have never reached their current form with the research. Research is the key element behind any type of evolution and progress. Contemporary, broadly established theories, varying from the understanding of the universe to the revelation of human evolution, are the result of valuable innovations in different fields of science and technology. Every day life has been simplified due to the constant advance of knowledge and discoveries. However, none of this would be possible without constant research. Therefore, and since research is vital to the development of human civilization, the need to augment and supplement current research methods has become apparent. Even though research outcomes

If we refer back to Gawande’s, Mistrust of Science we can predict that not all “science” is reliable science. There have been instances where we believed that “the sun moved across the sky” and that when being out in the cold, we have a greater chance of getting sick. These are all said to be facts, and they were even said by scientists. Though, we have to look deeper into the facts and the knowledge, because these statements are just hypotheses. They have yet to be proven. So when is science factual? When can we take the word of science and use it to gain more knowledge? This article suggested that “all knowledge is just probable knowledge. A contradictory piece of evidence can always emerge.” This is, in fact, true. Knowledge is just what you find to an answer once. Just because that specific question has been answered does not mean that it is the one and the only answer, there could be and probably are much more. For example, medicine. Medicine was once said to be all we had. There was once a time where if you got cancer you were bound to pass, or if you got AIDs or even HIV, there was no chance of survival after a short amount of time. Today, these answers have changed, due to the never-ending search for more knowledge in these

Sixty percent of Americans quit something at one point in their lives. Of that sixty percent, forty percent quit because they thought they mastered their task. For someone to fully grow, he or she needs to strive past what they've mastered. People need to learn more about what they've mastered in order to fully grow. Someone who tries something beyond what he or she has mastered will grow because he or she will gain new knowledge, figure out what he or she is best at, and fully grow as an individual. Someone who attempts to learn beyond what he or she has mastered is able to acquire new knowledge. Scientists do this all the time by figuring out if a theory is true or false and then trying to see if they can learn even more about it.

Frankenstein Versus Frankenscience The story of Frankenstein. A story that I, myself, have been familiar with for a good part of my life. It is most popular among horror film fanatics and becomes one of the most desired stories to be told around Halloween. Some see it as a well-told story

Misconception About Science Miryan A. Mendoza August 30, 2015 AP Biology There has been many misunderstandings about science over the years. People be thinking that scientific knowledge is absolute and that it never changes, but it's all wrong. Scientific knowledge is never absolute. Which means

Science makes our life much easier in so many ways that sometimes we don't even

Testing knowledge claims through positivism principles. The positivism perspective is an extension to the empiricism view on knowledge that states that knowledge comes from induction and observable experiences and that this knowledge is used to explain social phenomena (Benton & Craib, 2011). Nevertheless, the empiric view of knowledge on which positivism is based has long been subject to limitations. Immanuel Kant noted for instance that knowledge does not only come from the senses but also from a basic pallet of conceptual knowledge we all have. Furthermore, the interpretation of observations can differ due to the different way everyone acquires concepts. The claims done by Staman and Slob (2012) mentioned earlier are analyzed below for using this perspective on science.

Does being right mean being right forever? A lot of scientific knowledge from the past that we thought was right has changed. Now with better technology we have a better understanding of things making some scientific knowledge wrong. The articles "The Half-life of facts" by Samuel Arbesman, "The Food Pyramid and Why It Changed" by William Neuman, and the informational essay " The explosion What We Know about Life Forms" by Alan Cochev are proving this conclusion. Throughout the essay the reader will know how Scientific knowledge had changed over time.

For as long as we place value in knowledge, discovery will remain an overall positive, and vastly transformative force, shaping both individuals, and broader society. The knowledge we continuously gain through our many deliberate inquisitions, and occasional unexpected accidents, serves to dispel ignorance, more often than not for the betterment of the world as a whole. And while it is true that every now and then, a discovery may have detrimental effect on a smaller segment of society, or an individual, this becomes quite negligible when we look upon humanity as a whole across the expanse of history. Chronicling much of the scientific aspect of this history is Bill Bryson’s non-fiction A Short History of Nearly Everything, it presents how advanced humanity has become in its

1. Even the best scientists have been wrong about some things. Give two examples from this video where well-known scientists were wrong.

Is discovery always a good thing? Humanity’s interest in unknown world has been universal and enduring. Accompany with human development, discovery the unknown world has become more and more important to human life. Some people think discovery is a good thing. They will tell you how X-ray used by medical professionals

“That which is accepted as knowledge today is sometimes discarded tomorrow.” We live in a strange and puzzling world. Despite the exponential growth of knowledge in the past century, we are faced by a baffling multitude of conflicting ideas. The mass of conflicting ideas causes the replacement of knowledge, as one that was previously believed to be true gets replace by new idea. This is accelerated by the rapid development of technology to allow new investigations into knowledge within the areas of human and natural sciences. Knowledge in the human sciences has been replaced for decades as new discoveries by the increased study of humans, and travel has caused the discarding of a vast array of theories. The development of

The nature and process of science are a collection of things, ideas, and guidelines. “The purpose of science is to learn about and understand our universe more completely” (Science works in specific ways, 3). Science works with evidence from our world. If it doesn’t come from the natural world, it isn’t science. You need to be creative and have flexible thoughts and ideas if you want to be a scientist. Science always brings up new ideas and theories and if you aren’t flexible to those ideas you can’t be a scientist. Science has been in our world for a long time. It is deep into our history and our cultures. The principals of science; are all about understanding our world using the evidence we collect. If we can’t collect evidence on something we simply cannot understand it. If we don’t understanding something about our world, science says that we can learn about it by collecting evidence (Science has principals, 4). Science is a process; it takes time. You don’t immediately come to a conclusion for your hypothesis a few minutes