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Scientific Issues Overview

In a paper of seven pages, the writer looks at scientific issues and the arguments surrounding them. Overpopulation, climate chang...

Criminological Studies and Scientific Variables

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at scientific variables. Criminological studies are examined for the use of such variab...

Summary of a Scientific Study

from North and South America, Asia, Africa, and Europe, and asked them to determine the emotional intent of faces from their own a...

Intelligent Design and Scientific Evidence

This essay argues in favor of intelligent design by drawing heavily on Michael J. Behe's book "Darwin's Black Box." Three pages in...

Sixteenth Through Seventeenth Centuries' Scientific Concepts

upon life are not likely to be duplicated in the near future. Indeed, the praise for such progression during these two periods ca...

1970s Technological, Scientific, and Cultural Events

opponents" (Anonymous Watergate and Nixons resignation 20f2b85ea95). Many high ranking officials were involved and all of the info...

Cloning of Human Beings Should Not Be Allowed for Religious, Scientific, and Moral Reasons

womb, is upon the world. These are issues of science fiction, but as time goes on they become science fact, a situation that has t...

1940s' Scientific and Technological Developments

The discovery in the 1940s that ticks are attracted to a cloth which had been impregnated with the scent of a dog (Miller, 1996), ...

Laudan, Boyd, and Putnam on Scientific Realism

In four pages scientific realism is examined in the concepts of Laudan, Putnam, and Boyd. Two sources are cited in the bibliograp...

Scientific Realism Argument

In nine pages scientific realism as supported by Forrest's article is assessed. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

Misconduct in Scientific Cases

biphenyls" combined to prove up to "1000 times more potent in mimicking estrogen when tested in combination" (ORI casesummaries.as...

Scientific Method of Inquiry

natural phenomena consists of four steps: 1. Observation and description of a phenomenon of group of phenomena. 2. Formulation of...

Scientific Revolution and How It Evolved

place (Meeks PG). With the advent of the Copernican theory that the sun, not the Earth, was the center of the universe people wer...

Proof, Empirical Evidence, and Scientific Theory

a further truth, it is only common sense that the empirical evidence gathered up to that time is the evidence that is taken to be ...

Scientific Investigation Ethics and 'The Making of a Discovery' by Anne Sayre

Sayre illustrates in her essay, scientific discovery is a complicated process that often requires the input of countless scientist...

Scientific Theories of Thomas Kuhn

break through by inventing a new paradigm are] almost always...either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they chan...

Scientific Philosophies, Realism, and Antirealism

Therefore, realities for these individuals would logically be at a variance. Francis Bacon, considered the father of modern scie...

Absolute Monarchy of the Early Modern Era, Style of Baroque, and the Scientific Revolution

1996). The world map, as one example, offered substantial relevancy to Europes existence; prior to the maps invention, poli...

Similarities and Differences Between the 17th Century Scientific Revolution and 18th Century Enlightenment

matter, "organic and inorganic alike," could be defined in terms of extension and motion (Burns, 1969, p. 567). Therefore, Descart...

Scientific Management and Taylor's Theories

has impacted on mass production and the criticisms of it the starting point needs to be with the work of the founder; Frederick Ta...

Sociological Research and the Scientific Basis of Empiricism

in his groundbreaking compilation of scientifically conscious thought was that of other minds, a concept that was thoroughly devel...

Critiquing Barnes' and Bloor's 'Strong Programme' of Scientific Sociological Knowledge

counter the views of those sociologists who believe that this is not the case, that pure knowledge stands independent from social ...

Literature Review, Scientific and Ethics Research

and Public Policy, 1995). These days, this still happens -- older scientists regularly mentor younger scientists and through that...

Extra Sensory Perception and a Scientific Argument Against It

primary methods employed for studies concerning ESP has been the "forced-choice" procedure, in which participants were asked to g...

Radical Aspects of the Scientific Revolution

the sun around which our planet revolved, not the sun around the earth as was held by the Church (Meeks, 1997). This assertion al...

Protestantism, Enlightenment, and Scientific Revolution Movements

the United States of America was entrenched in the idea of religious freedom. There were conflicts present between the Catholic ...

Fast ForWord Scientific Learning Software

as "b" and "d." It has long been known that "b" and "d" have presented young learners with difficulty, and for years it was belie...

Exploring the World of Scientific Discovery Through Changing Paradigms, Flexibility, and False Western Science Confidence

initially "sensory evidence - seeing, smelling, hearing, touching - generally confirms our knowledge giving us confidence that som...

Scientific Management Theories, Motivation, and Theories

scientifically managed (Accel, 2003). Taylor had particular objectives for scientific management which are still used today in man...

Political and Socioeconomic Conditions Necessary for a Scientific Revolution

for new ideas to flourish. The two aspects of developing civilisation - socio-historical change and the growth of scientific thoug...