Scientific evidence

from the fossil record is another connection with biological anthropology. From understanding that there is not enough physical evidence (fossils), the next step for these scientists is to go out and refine their theory. They need to search and provide enough physical evidence that a biological anthropologist would need to support their findings to receive scientific…

take it to encompass the entire hominin lineage. These differences of opinion are not due to a scarcity of evidence. They are due to the complete absence of what sort of evidence can settle the question of which group or groups of primates should be counted as human. Biologists aren't equipped to tell us whether an organism is a human organism because "human" is a folk-category rather a scientific one. If science can't give us an account of the human, why not…

It was something that we were taught as basically being fact, a viable explanation as to why and how the world progressed and it made sense. However, around the United States there are states that have bans on the teaching of evolution and other scientific theories in classrooms or any scholarly environments. Today there is a prevalent and…

One of the first claims that SeaWorld makes is that Blackfish’s information is dated. There is validity to that claim: after all, Blackfish relies on trainers who had their heydays in the 1990s. Yet SeaWorld’s scientific evidence is equally dated. SeaWorld backs many of its claims with a paper written in 1998 by Dr. Ingrid Visser. Dr. Ingrid Visser, whose work was cited without her permission, has since decried SeaWorld’s use of her paper in its rebuttal. Dr. Visser…

Corporate involvement in scientific research have created a problematic dynamic between financial interests and the goals of sciences and its supposed norms. Robert Merton said that “the goal of science is to expand the range of our knowledge by empirical confirmation and logically consistent statements of regularities,” and made a point to identify certain norms that should not be breeched to ensure that science would not fall ill to the maladies that plague other institutions. These included:…

actually effective at all. In this case, it is not, because there has been no single scientific study that has shown this method of “Treatment” to be at all effective, in fact, it is as pseudoscientific as the placebo effect (18, Skeptic News). The only sort of “Evidence” for this is in The Bible, which does not hold water, if you hold it up to the same standard of evidence as scientific studies. Further evidence will be dissected in a later…

better emotionally connecting with people lacking a scientific background. Skorton’s article contributes a perspective towards solving a larger problem of the drift between the scientific community and the general public’s perception of scientific truth, particularly the scientific truths that inform politically charged debates. Skorton effectively aggrandizes the scientific community as potential saviors of…

debatable, and to date there is no more well researched, well founded, and supported scientific theory for the origin of species. Reading this opening reminded me of the Bill Nye – Ken Ham debate, Bill Nye argued that creation is not a viable scientific explanation to the origin of species while Ken Ham opposed. In the final moments of the debate, both men were asked, what would change each other’s minds, Bill Nye said, “evidence” while Ken Ham responded, “nothing.” I along with many others of…

falsify a theory, which agrees with Popper’s falsification criteria. However, if one chooses to accept that a theory is only scientific if it can be falsified and that it must require empirical content, then Popper’s criteria can no longer agree with Carnap’s. In addition, each criteria of demarcation encourages a different…

Unit 3 Discussion A. Controversy in science is healthy. It involves disagreements on how we should interpret data, over which ideas are supported the best by the evidence that is available, and what ideas are worth further investigation. It compels scientists to carefully examine data and perform additional research to help scientific study progress. And as stated in the text, controversy “is an essential part of the process of science”. Controversy in our daily lives is something we don’t…