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    , and if so, should a scientist research and share scientific information or leave it alone. For years in the past humans used the gods/God to explain all the natural events that happened in the world. In Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s essay he shows the contrast between science and knowledge and using the gods/God to explain scientific feats. Tyson claims that scientists must choose because knowledge cannot work with the act of referring to a deity as an explanation for the acts in the world. Tyson builds his credibility by using well known scientists and citing articles directly, he follows with more convincing facts and examples to further his point. He closes his essay of with the same defense he started it with and finalizes with the point that scientist refuse ignorance because it shows a lack of knowledge and instead use a deity to explain what they do not know…

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    Danny Najera

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    I want to be a doctor, an artist, a scientist, and a poet. My dreams are grandiose, but I have taught about these things often. I chose my Biology Professor Danny Najera from Green river College to interview. I chose Dr. Najera because he is a research scientist who is passionate about his work. Danny is not the typical scientist. He is a funny, sarcastic character. This man is not clean shaven rather he can be described as a rough, ruddy man. His hair is long, and his face not shaven. His…

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    Stereotypes are beliefs about a particular group that are pervasive and generally accepted as true. Stereotypical representations of scientists reduce women’s interest in STEM. Research by Cheryan, Drury, and Vichayapai (2012) found that when exposed to a stereotypical computer scientist, women’s interest in computer sciences declined, regardless of the gender of the scientist. For the study, women from non-computer science undergraduate programs met with a man or woman who exemplified computer…

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    wrong and pushes its pursuer to explore knowledge that had previously never been explored. Scientists are expected to grasp knowledge that no one had ever before been presented with, making the field of scientific research one filled with risk and unpredictability. In the excerpt from The Great Influenza,…

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    Public Engagement

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    Public engagement with science is interrelated with science communications, it is a means of disseminating knowledge and increasing public involvement with science. (Bubela et al, 2009). The engagement involves a two-way dialogue, participation and consensus on science research in a specific location between scientists and the public. There have been innovations and developments in the last decade, like the rapid development digital technology where meetings can be held with thousands of…

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    enlightenment thinker’s who think less governmental control is best. They think that greed in this open economy is perfectly acceptable or even to be encouraged (727). Ergo, when Aylmer reaches out and takes the invisible hand out of his greed, Hawthorne seems to be saying that greed does not make a society more free, but rather it destroys all freedom (727). This is because once the mark of the hand on Georgiana’s cheek is removed, she dies almost immediately (Hawthorne 475). In fact, during…

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    achievments were very minor and at the concern of his father he was removed. His father stated, "You care for nothing but shooting dogs and rat catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and your whole family." Robert Darwin enrolled his son in Edinburgh to study medicine. Young Darwin did not like the subject and could barely even watch operations, which at that time they performed without Anesthesia. In 1827 Charles was sent to Christ's College in Cambridge to prepare for holy…

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    people and make them weary of science even today. However, science was a lot more frightening during Shelley’s time than it is now. Mary Shelley grew up during a time where galvanism was popular, and scientists like Humphry Davy, who was experimenting with electricity, were on the rise (Legro). Davy believed that “science had the power to conquer nature”, and that “the mind itself could be altered with gases such as nitrous oxide” (Legro). With scientists like Davy going around sharing his…

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    A staple of the horror genre has always been that of the mad scientist. From H.G. Wells ' Dr. Moreau to the more recent ideas of Dr. Josef Mengele in Ira Levin 's 1976 novel, The Boys From Brazil, these and other fictitious1 scientist 's dreams and schemes generate nothing but pure evil while running unrestricted and unaccountable, wreaking havoc upon humanity, with the ultimate result of the scientist receiving the recompense of his reward. Heather Douglas indulges herself with this fiction in…

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    Pseudoscience Vs Knowledge

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    As humans we have several capacities that other species in the animal kingdom do not have. Our brain can reason and process information like no other animals can do, in fact we are capable to judge and make our own conclusions. Unfortunately, not every thought that crosses our minds is accurate; this has led to stablish parameters between what is reliable and what is not. Over the past decades, scientists have avoided to spread information that is not proven. They have used the scientific method…

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