82:161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Antibiotics, Health Technology, Pseudoscience

• School: Brandon University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 82:161
• Professor: Professor G

Document Summary

The attitude of science: replicable, applicable, up to date, scienti c, peer reviewed. Science is an attitude o structures: training, mechanisms. Way we acquire knowledge is through revelation: also through emotion and intuition - tennis metaphor, competition is fair and transparent, science is always changing due to this competition. Scienti c theories are just the best we have available at any given time: science is always open to criticism just because a theory has existed for thousands of years doesn"t mean it is immune to criticism. It is the mechanisms for evaluating claims which ensures the strength of science. Pseudoscience doesn"t work this way: resist testing of theories, not transparent, haruko obotokato example. Wanted to work out what makes people sick. Must empathies with past learning"s and not scorn them. The willingness to explore new ideas doesn"t mean you have to accept them unconditionally. Science never makes conclusions about possibilities only probabilities.