BIOL 2000H Lecture 4: BIOL 2000 - Sept 19th 2016
27 Sep 2016
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A poor understanding of science can be used to create confusion about what we know and don"t know, which has societal implications. Evaluate their evidence evaluate their conflicting interests consider views of certified (and non biased) experts (you need to know who is an expert. Determine effects of action vs. non action. Lack of understanding of the scientific method impedes knowledge generation. Loui pasteur showed that bacteria could not spontaneously occur if you sterilize a solution and don"t allow the air to get it, then it remains sterile the scientific method helped him to formulate his experiment. Poor use of the scientific method is very costly 80-90% of pre-clinical studies can not be reproduced the u. s. spends . 2 billion annually on these reproducible studies. Scientific inquiry refers to the diverse ways in which scientists study the natural world and propose explanation based on the evidence derived from their work.
