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Stephen - I second Charlie's opinion - well said!
Although I do not have any evidence, I wonder if the structural
deficit arises, at least in part, from the overwhelming daily exposure
to applied science versus scientific inquiry. In medicine, for
instance, the clinical value of a drug in
On Apr 13, 2012, at 9:23 AM, Charlie Carlson wrote:
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> Stephen,
> I think you stated it wonderfully.
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>> Ben -
>> To your point. I think the problem is a structural one and to some
>> degree we have brought it on ourselves by permitting the public to
>> maintain their misconception about what science really is. It is
>> presented in schools as dogma, rather than a process for asking and
>> answering questions about nature, and as a result we have what
>> we've got. Unfortunately, the Common Core frameworks, soon to be
>> standards are not much better than what we have either. Until we
>> really dig into the essence of what science does, and find ways to
>> stimulate the scientific habits of mind among our populace, myth
>> and science will not be easily differentiated; since we have not
>> taught people how to question their understanding and seek
>> evidence, or even recognize it when they see it. As far as I am
>> concerned, none of the content of science will matter if the
>> process of science is fuzzy. As sinister as it is to see science
>> corrupted for nefarious purposes, I don't think just saying my
>> dogma is better than your dogma is going to get us where we want to
>> be.
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>> On Apr 12, 2012, at 6:06 PM, Challenger wrote:
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>>> Martin, I would agree that it's sad that utility is trumping
>>> education and curiosity. Very sad.
>>>
>>> I think we need to be careful here with what we say though. Why
>>> shouldn't we be able to question scientific ideas? Tennessee's
>>> main fault here is that it's only questioning evolution and
>>> nothing else, which we all would agree is totally inconsistent and
>>> missing the point. We should allow each generation to question
>>> everything (and feel free and safe to do so). I'm not the only
>>> person who has said this.
>>>
>>> Claude Lévi-Strauss, widely regarded as the father of modern
>>> anthropology, articulated the same idea in 1964 in the first
>>> volume of his iconic Mythologiques collection of cultural
>>> anthropology: "The scientist is not a person who gives the right
>>> answers, he's one who asks the right questions."
>>>
>>> In 1966, Richard Feynman addressing the National Science Teachers
>>> Association said: " Science alone of all the subjects contains
>>> within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the
>>> infallibility of the greatest teachers of the preceding generation."
>>>
>>> Erich, you may have "lost every argument you've had with gravity"
>>> yet that didn't stop NASA from questioning Einstein's theories
>>> regarding gravity and subsequently launching the Gravity B Probe...
>>>
>>> While the government shouldn't be questioning these things for
>>> students, I do think the students should be free to question these
>>> things (read: everything) for themselves.
>>>
>>>
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