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Ethics

are a small minority (we hope). It is important for scientists to not get so intent on proving one thing or another that they vi...

Abnormal Psychology: Amnesia

take place, which is within two distinct systems. One system is referred to as "declarative memory" and this system records "names...

The Ethics of Forensic Investigation

2001). Scientists may have qualms against being a part of the use of such tactics (Barnett, 2001). In the context of forensic sci...

Philosophy of Nursing and Future Plans

for my patients. Personal philosophy of nursing: Tourville and Ingalls (2003) offer a fascinating and very apt analogy to descri...

The ‘Biology’ of Cloning: Its Importance and Potential Impacts

Today, plant research scientists accomplish cloning through the manipulation of a limited number of vectors. The Ti plasmid (a pl...

Philosophy And Science: Primary Differences

itself to unaccountability or being troublesome to understand (Harris, 2004). Why, then, would this be drawn into question ...

Eugenics: Science and Pseudoscience

This 4 page paper discusses several points having to do with genetics, evaluates them from the standpoint of science and pseudosci...

Is Walking Beneficial for Human Health?

day. Rather than scheduling in daily walks, they try to increase their ordinary walking in the course of doing their daily tasks. ...

Book Report on Arthur C. Clarke’s 2061: Odyssey Three

the Great Wall. There, Heywood Floyds monolith is happily reunited with astronaut and scientist David Bowman and the supercompute...

A cirtical evaluation of What the Bleep do we Know

then go on to say that the same principle should be applied in ones personal life: "when you break free of your assumptions about ...

Multifractal Models in Forecasting Volatility

of differing influences has been seen is in the financial market and the way stocks or share prices behave. While some theories ha...

Genetic Influence on Elite Athletic Performance

of the test in making an educated guess as to a childs athletic future when a child is below age 9 (Lite). In other words, the tes...

Science as the Foundation of Today’s World

cosmology in the 1600s. It seemed quite logical to Aristotle that the sun revolves around the earth, because that is what seems to...

Science Instruction and Safety Issues

and materials are stored properly and that any potentially hazardous materials were not inadvertently left out in the classroom (E...

Babylon 5 vs. Star Trek

characters who came after them. Star Trek is also known for its progressive point of view. Roddenberry often presented a sort of ...

Considering the Soul and Psychology

while the second cannot be perceived by are "intelligible (grasped by thought), not composed of parts, and exempt from dissolution...

Science v Religion

our world which to some are unquestionable and indubitable. Foundational knowledge serves as the immovable and irrefutable corners...

B.F. Skinner and William James

prominent philosopher, Carl Lange, was coining his own version of that theory. The resulting combination became known as the Jame...

Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton

2002). Despite the appeal of the traditional story, historical evidence shows that Newtons theory of universal gravitation did not...

Theism and Worldview

"worldviews can be evaluated for their logic, explanatory power and coherence" (Smith, 2005). Smith argues in favor of a sort of O...

Discussion of the Scientific Method

sunny window and the other cup was placed outside that it received direct sunlight. In both cases, the plants grew straight up unt...

Craven's What's the Worst that Could Happen?

Rationality of the Magic Grid Cravens risk or credibility grid has been called many things, most of them related...

New Methods of Instruction for Teachers at all Levels

help teachers meet the demands of their students and motivate teachers and enhance teacher performance. Background...

Evidence and Knowledge: How Do We Know?

that it sometimes seems as if no possible argument could elicit even the consideration that those beliefs could possibly be wrong....

Religion and Change from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Century

properly! Religion is, and always has been, a driving force in society. This was...

Personal Reflection on Science in Daily Life

PART I: SCIENTIFIC METHOD The scientific method is reflected in many aspects of day-to-day life. The scientific method...

Forensic Science and the Scientific Method

nature of everything from human and animal biology to the farthest reaches of the cosmos. Because of this, what scientists "do" is...

The Myth of Scientific Progess

themselves, but rather because of sweeping conceptual changes across culture as a whole (Kuhn, 1996). For instance, the industrial...

Changes in Education: The Field of Science and Social Change

about science instruction that falls into areas of ethics have influenced how many science educators pursue instructional content....

Applying the Scientific Method: Science in Everyday Life

Observation of the light bulb might also support this hypothesis. In order to test the hypothesis, I would change the light bulb ...