Topic > Science and Pseudoscience - 2640

How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we do not understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience, New Age thinking and fundamental fanaticism, and the testable hypothesis of science ? Can we prevent famous fallacies like witchcraft, faith healing, demons, and UFOs from virtually banishing scientific thinking? Science leads us to understand how the world is, rather than how we would like it to be. Although its results may not in all cases be immediately understandable or satisfactory. But when we overcome the barrier of questions, when the discoveries and methods of science get us through, when we fully understand and apply this knowledge, we can feel deeply satisfied. Science has illuminated the path to truly stupendous advances by humans in just a few centuries. Just as science has upset some truly ancient religious beliefs in its theory of evolution, it has also upset some of the clergy. They responded with witch hunts, torture chambers, executions and truly stunning contemporary brainwashing campaigns. Each challenges basic notions of where species come from and where they go. Without condemning these reactionary tendencies, there is a better way to understand these issues. The answer is science. Pseudoscience Science inspires a sense of wonder. But the same goes for pseudoscience. Poor and poor scientific disclosures abandon the ecological niches that pseudoscience readily fills. If it were widely understood that knowledge claims require adequate evidence before they can be accepted, there would be no room for pseudoscience. It is a vessel in which the evil claims of pseudoscience are cast out… middle of paper… alerting us to the dangers introduced by our world-altering technologies, particularly to the global environment on which our lives depend. Science provides an essential early warning system that can save millions of lives from chaos, destruction and natural disasters. Science teaches us the deepest questions about the origins, nature and destiny of our species, life, our planet and the universe. Science empowers anyone who takes the trouble to learn it. Science is a way to expose mysticism, superstition and misapplied religions. Science, in my opinion, is an absolutely essential tool for any society that has the hope of surviving into the next century with its core values ​​intact, not just science engaged in by those who practice it, but science understood and embraced by entire human community: and if scientists don't realize all this, who will??