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  • Essay / Science and Pseudoscience - 2640

    How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don't understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience, New Age thinking, and fanaticism fundamental and testable hypothesis of science? Can we stop such famous misconceptions, such as witchcraft, faith healings, demons and UFOs, from virtually banishing scientific thought? Science leads us to understand how the world is, rather than how we wish it were. Although its conclusions are not in all cases immediately understandable or satisfactory. But when we break through the barrier of questions, when scientific discoveries and methods allow us to take the next step, when we fully understand and implement this knowledge, we can feel deeply satisfied. Science has opened the way to truly prodigious progress made by human beings in just a few centuries. Just as science has upended some very ancient religious beliefs in its theory of evolution, it has also upended some clergy. They responded with witch hunts, torture chambers, executions and truly mind-boggling contemporary brainwashing campaigns. Each questions basic notions about the origin and destination of species. Without condemning these reactionary tendencies, there is a better way to understand these issues. The answer is scientific. PseudoscienceScience arouses a feeling of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Rare and mediocre science popularizations abandon the ecological niches that pseudoscience quickly fills. If it were widely accepted that claims about knowledge require adequate evidence before they can be accepted, there would be no room for pseudoscience. It is a vessel in which the bad claims of pseudoscience chase... middle of paper ... alerting us to the perils introduced by our world-altering technologies, particularly to the global environment on which our lives depend. Science provides a vital 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, of life, of our planet and of the universe. Science brings power to anyone who takes the trouble to learn it. Science is a means of denouncing mysticism, superstition and misapplied religions. Science, I maintain, is an absolutely essential tool for any society that hopes to survive into the next century with its fundamental values ​​intact, not just science as practiced by its practitioners, but science understood and embraced by the entire human community: and if scientists can't do it, who will? ??