Defending science from what?
نویسندگان
چکیده
The seven professors who wrote a letter to the Editor of New Zealand Listener (Clements et al., 2021) present themselves as ‘defenders’ science, but how valid, really, is this claim? Three o...
منابع مشابه
Deconstructing design: a strategy for defending science.
Despite its legal and scientific failings, the "intelligent design" (ID) movement has been a public relations success story in the United States. By first creating doubts about the adequacy of evolution to account for the complexity of life, the ID movement has invoked the values of "fairness" and "openness" to argue for inclusion in the classroom and curriculum. In this way, it has attempted t...
متن کاملWhat is Ethics of Science and Technology?
Background: The existence of crises and problems such as non-compliance with standards and professional ethics in the field of engineering and technology, and existence of fraud and misuse in the field of science has resulted in importance of ethics in the science and technology. But the fact is that there is no accurate understanding of the ethics of science and technology, and this field is o...
متن کاملTime to step up: defending basic science and animal behaviour
a Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Program, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, U.S.A. b Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, U.S.A. c Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, U.S.A. d Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, U.S.A. e Department of Biology, University of Okl...
متن کاملDefending sleepwalkers with science and an illustrative case.
OBJECTIVE To test whether laboratory-based research differentiating sleepwalkers (SW) from controls (C) can be applied in an uncontrolled forensic case as evidence the alleged crime was committed during an arousal from sleep in which the mind is not fully conscious due to a SW disorder. METHODS A PSG study recorded 8 months after the defendant was charged was analyzed independently by spectra...
متن کاملDefending science education against intelligent design: a call to action.
We review here the current political landscape and our own efforts to address the attempts to undermine science education in Wisconsin. To mount an effective response, expertise in evolutionary biology and in the history of the public controversy is useful but not essential. However, entering the fray requires a minimal tool kit of information. Here, we summarize some of the scientific and lega...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Educational Philosophy and Theory
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1469-5812', '0013-1857']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2021.1966415