Science

Forensic Science has become a very popularized topic due to television shows like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Forensic Science is when professionals use scientific means to analyze physical crime evidence. However, forensic science has been a part of every process to solving a case and its been around for a long time so many of the old techniques are still used today. Over the years, forensic science has helped reform law enforcement. The top five colleges that offer forensic science as a…

In her article, “Science Isn’t Broken,” Christie Aschwanden- a science and health journalist and recipient of a Santa Fe Institute Journalism Fellowship in Complexity Science- discusses the consequences resulting from the recent lack of peer-review, the portrayal of the scientific community due to these effects, and the true nature of research. According to Aschwanden (2015), one of the prominent contributors to the public’s lack of confidence in science is statistical manipulation and biases.…

Historical Conflicts of Science and Religion Evolutionary biology is a relatively modern scientific subject which has appeared to rouse great conflict with organized religion. This paper seeks to use properties of NOMA to dispel the alleged conflict between science and religion, and it will also attempt to pinpoint how such conflicts may be prevented. To accomplish this, the definitions of science & religion will be clarified, the feud between evolutionary biology and religion will be discussed…

I think that mistakes are not key in making discoveries. “Thomas Edison said that inventing was 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration,” as stated in “In Praise of Careful Science.” Inventing is hard, it needs a lot of dedication and work. Few people are lucky to be motivated by mistakes, like Percy Spencer and Isaac Newton. Sometimes mistakes may start the process of making a discovery, but to make a discovery you need careful experiments and study, and those take time and work.…

“The Mistrust of Science” by Atul Gawande is a commencement address at the California Institute of Technology. Atul Gawande calls upon the institutes graduates to take a stance and defend the common misconceptions and myths about scientific issues concerning today’s society. The commencement’s main goal was to use a logical thought process to defend the scientific evidence against common misconception. For example, Atul Gawande says “They deploy false analogies and other logical fallacies… when…

So why is there a disparity between the two? Initially Natural Sciences and Religion were very intertwined with each other, while today they are thought to be polar-opposites. The emergence of Religion can be viewed as intelligent progression in human-societal evolution(cite). It is not known with certainty how the first…

Genre: The Secret of Scenes in Science Fiction. Science fiction is a genre that is well known to raise many questions about the world we live in and how humanity might react to certain situations be it the possibility of aliens, zombies, or robots. Although, when analyzing the category of science fiction as a whole, how can one really classify something as science fiction? Throughout an analysis of the film Resident Evil (2002), in relation to two other science fiction films titled Jurassic Park…

Nevertheless, 1950s was widely perceived as a milestone for marketing thought as the mainstream debate stepped in science; this science-led revolution reflected on US business decision-making. In early 1950s Ford Foundation initiated an infuse of scientific theory into US business systems and marketers were quick to get involved. As the consequence, US business schools raised admission standards and included more sciene-related courses to the curriculum (mathematics, statistics, economics, etc.)…

Have you ever wondered what Forensic Science is all about or even wondered about the differences forensics has to offer? Well, let’s start with the word forensic. Forensic is defined by Black’s Law dictionary as “belonging to courts of justice”. Forensic Science is the application of scientific knowledge to legal problems. It is also the scientific method of gathering and examining information about the past, they are used in the court of law. Science of anatomy and problem solving. There are…

The Power of Knowledge Have advancements in knowledge changed the way people think about science experiments and the things scientist are creating? The people rely on these advancements and do not notice the effects they are having on them and their lifestyle. The advancements in science caused the people of the world to be lazy, cause harm to animals, and causing outrageous inventions to be invented. New technology has caused the people of the world to be lazy. The people in the United…