NATS 1765 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Bethune College
23 Sep 2018
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Office hours: 313 bethune college, mondays 11-12, wednesdays 11-12, and always by appointment. Scientists are not the only ones interested in the truth, citizens and others are also interested. "science" and is and ought; science too important to be left to scientists; credentials science literacy. Used in the us to beat selves or schools up when fail quizzes. Literacy is used as a knowledge of something. Informs attitudes abt how outreach to non-scientists (aka the public) should react. What if the knowledge you pick up is wrong or you are told wrong info. Ignorance is actually the knowledge of wrong info. Science literacy is usually assumed to be knowledge of scientific fact. If the public only knew more scientific facts they"d accept/ embrace science. If you know more scientific facts, would accept vaccinations more often is the implication. Conversely, lack of sci literacy used to explain. This assumption has shaped how universities tech science to non- scientists.
