ENV200H1 Lecture 2: Science in Society

• School: UTSG
• Department: School of Environment
• Course: ENV200H1
• Professor: Karen Ing

Document Summary

Media shows buzz items to catch atenion (discovery, controversy) tends to be uneven. Absence of real evidence is replaced by backing by authority igure with quesionable credenials/ bias. Empirical > observaions, not based on opinions or feelings. Science cannot provide the answers to all quesions. Scieniic ideas are tentaive - doesn"t represent absolute truth but increasingly accurate approximaions. Scieniic research have 2 criteria: validity - research is relevant to the quesion being asked, reliability repeatability/ consistency of the research (same experiment under same condiions give same results)