NATS 1760 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Opportunity Cost, Tacit Knowledge
20 Nov 2017
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Science literacy: informs attitudes about how outreach to non-scientists should work. It"s usually assumed to be knowledge of scientific facts. If the public knew more scientific facts they"d accept/embrace science. Lack of it is used to explain anti-vaxxers, inaction of climate change and opposition to gmos: risk and perception (people define danger differently) scientific expertise and challenges. Two reasons to study anti-vaxxers: democratic/populist and is often fueled by ignorance: anti-vaxxer movements are persistent because they"ve been refuted, criticized, debated, undermined, imprisoned, etc, they"ve gotten stronger. Vaccines work: you are given a vaccine that contains a disease germ that is weak or dead. Your immune system then builds antibodies to that specific disease germ. Antibodies proteins that move freely in the body and can recognize n flag pathogens. Andrew wakefield - claimed mmr vaccine was associated with bowel disease and that it caused autism there was no actual link between the two.
