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Introduction

In the scientific world, many radical scientific principles go through a tumultuous progression before the scientific community accepts them. This was the case with the continental drift theory, a landmark theory in geology. When it was proposed, the scientific community received the continental drift theory with ridicule. However, with time, the theory underwent a series of reinforcement from accumulating evidence in support of the theory. In the end, it emerged as the greatest geological principle of all time. The continental drift theory was the brainchild of Alfred Wegener. Alfred Wegener was a German meteorologist born in 1980. He acquired a PhD in astronomy from ...

Global warming has been an issue that has been laughed at, ridiculed, feared, and heatedly debated for over two decades now. While industries and governments wrote off initial claims of rising global temperatures and climate change as ranting of a few science geeks. However, with temperatures steadily increasing the world over, it was predicted that, at a sustained rate of environmental degradation, the Earth would get steadily hotter. However, after an initial decade of rising, the temperatures around the world have actually come to what is known as a ‘standstill’. This was not expected and has led to greater confusion over the ...

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The dogmas are laws and axioms that define a science and all the studies inside that science must follow. It is difficult for an investigator to challenge or dispute a law of axiom of natural science as biology, chemistry or physics; because the current scientific community follows the current dogmas of the natural sciences. In the best of cases, tens of years after the discovery or laws challenging other scientist and investigators must support the idea after the scientific community accept a change in the current dogmas.

Currently, the central dogmas of the natural sciences are:

a. All the pluricellular organisms are mechanical. The animals are considered ...

Sodas: From Health Drink to Casual Beverage Prior to its current image as one of the most esteemed and consumed beverage across the globe, the history of soda drinks began with the manufacturing of carbonated water by Joseph Priestly, and Torbern Bergman’s invention of a mechanism turning carbonated water into chalk form with the use of sulfuric acid in the 1700s. However, Bellis and Oatman-Stanford noted that the newly manufactured good of Priestly and Bergman was met with little success in the market due to financial constraints and the presence of a weaker glass industry making it different ...

What we accept as knowledge today is not always accepted as true tomorrow. Knowledge is more than a collection of facts on a particular topic. That is just information. Knowledge includes the assumption of a greater understanding as to how the facts work together. This means establishing connections between the facts, establishing meaning, providing evidence, considering the implications and arriving at a level of knowledge with a reasonable degree of certainty. This allows the assemblage of a body of knowledge that can be viewed from different perspectives and provides insight into a topic and how it fits into the greater world around it. This makes knowledge ...

The basic question in understanding what we know is the “How do we know?” A supplementary question to this is “How do we know that what we know is real and true?” Various philosophies stem out of these basic question. While epistemology is the general study of the knowing and the process of knowing, specific theories can be applied to these perennial questions. (Gibson, 1988) These include realism, idealism, empiricism, rationalism, constructivism, among others. While these are lengthy and heated topics, this paper will concentrate on two major theories of knowledge, namely, empiricism and constructivism, as points of understanding ...

Summaries

Goel, Reema et al. 2015. Highly Reactive Free Radicals in Electronic Cigarette Aerosols. Chemical Research in Toxicology 28:9 (1675-1677).
In this reported scientific study, a group of researchers from the Pennsylvania State University investigated whether the aerosol produced by an e-cigarette contains reactive, short-lived free radicals. Initially, the researchers proposed that the e-cigarette vapor may contain high concentrations of free radicals, presumably from the presence of high concentrations of free radicals from conventional cigarette smoke. It must be pointed out that reactive, short-lived free radicals, such as reactive oxygen species and reactive nitrogen species, are potentially toxic to organisms, ...

Our food is one of the most essential part of being human. As such, we have strived to improve techniques in food processing and preservation and have also sought ways to develop more efficient ways of food production. We have done research on various chemicals and fertilizers that allow crops to grow abundantly on relatively less fertile soil and we have also studied insecticides and pesticides that help farmers get rid of harmful pests that kill and lessen harvests of produce. However, these innovations have also led to adverse environmental effects on the quality of our environment and even ...

The concerns about climate change among the public members and the scientific community are increasing. The members of the public and the scientific community are in the urge to understand the potential causes and impacts of climate change. The trends in the climate and temperatures around the world indicate that global warming is taking place (Botkin & Keller, 1995, p. 45). Provide one piece of data scientists offer to show that the climate is changing globally and give the expected impacts of climate change in my area.

How scientists learn about past global temperatures and climate

Scientists study the past global climate and temperatures, in some different ways. The ...

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After reviewing the case study, it is possible to claim that there are several inconsistencies with the claims made in the scenario. First of all, the study creates a vivid claim in the title that does not correlate with the study conducted by the researcher. The entire case uses a false attraction for the readers in order to impose its agenda. The title suggests wearing red in order to be noticed in the crowd, but the study evaluates only the de-saturated colors of a narrow range in terms of saliency. Secondly, the study does not provide any hypothesis or ...

Gerontology

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In the field of gerontology, there is no other issue which is as contentious as the question of how long humans can live. One school maintains that human life can be extended for any number of years. While the opposing school says that there is for sure an age limit beyond which human life cannot be extended.

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Aging is labeled as the accumulation of diverse harmful changes occurring in cells and tissues with advancement of age that are responsible for the increased risk of disease and death. (Harman 2003). Opposed to humans, most animals living in natural ...

Blogging revolutionized scientific discourses in a fast and less formal manner. It serves as a platform to spread scholarly information throughout the web. The objective of science blogging is to share the contents of scholarly information with ease to people who are inside and outside the ambits of the scientific community. Aside from informing the public about science in general, bloggers are also are able to express their views and improve their writing skills in a more creative way (Shema, Bar-Ilan and Thelwall, 2012). Science blogs are able to increase the transparency of scientific process through reviews and discussions of science culture ...

Healing the Future

INTRODUCTION
In a diverse nation like the United States there are many ideologies, philosophies, cultural “norms,” and belief systems, it is not really surprising that people are not always going to agree. There are many legal, political, and social issues that raise ethical questions that the public cannot agree upon how best to approach and address the debated issues. One of the most heatedly debated issues that exist today is the concerns surrounding stem cell research. Stem cell research has the potential to change the field of medicine and how people are healed. However, all of that potential is ...

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Philosophy

The Renaissance period found a good deal of interest in the physical world (Weckowicz 53). In 1510, Leonardo da Vinci developed several theories on the nature of the universe. In 1528, Jean Fernal, the French physician, calculated the size of the Earth. Nicolas Copernicus, a highly qualified Pole, observed motions of heavenly bodies, though he was not a practical astronomer. He found that heliocentric theory was more practical; Earth is actually rotating in an orbit around the sun. He retained many concepts of older theories such as spherical and finite universe, and perfectly circular shape of heavenly bodies. His heliocentric theory ...

Charles Darwin published his masterpiece detailing his theory of evolution by natural selection, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life in 1859. Despite the overwhelming consensus of the scientific community, there are still loud and politically active Creationists that insist that the earth is less than 10,000 years old because the Bible says so. However, the Bible never actually states how old the universe or the earth is. Belief that there is a Creator and in the theory of evolution are compatible for followers of ...

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The field of science and technology is ever-changing and continuously evolving. New discoveries and inventions are being devised by the minute. Old discoveries are revised, edited, deleted and updated. Scientists are working all across the world to improve the lives of people by experimenting with different drugs, medicines and technologies, as well as, using organic materials. Their particular focus over the past 50 years has been on stem cell technology.
The concept of stem cells dates back to the early 1900s. However, detailed experimentation and examination of stem cells started in the United States ...

- The News and Issues in Climate Change
- The News and Issues in Climate Change
Recently, the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a report on its findings regarding climate change. Their Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) is an attempt to organize the current assessment that the scientific community has as to the overall condition of the environment. This not only includes problems that are predicted to occur in the future, but also recommendations of ways that these problems might be able to be alleviated. While these prescriptions are meant to be helpful, they effect ...

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Introduction

The story of creation is one of the most compelling and intriguing issues that has yet to be concluded. Public opinion is divided in resolving the age-long conflict of the young-earth old-earth dilemma. Even in the field of secular science, a consensus could not be reached. The age of the earth has remained a paradox that, until today, both biblical scholars and scientist are struggling to explain. Predating even the earliest human civilization, man can only speculate what may have happened billions or thousands of years ago. In order to explain man’s very own existence, creation theories have emerged. ...

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The main reason for Muslims being violent is the victimization of Muslims in the world of sectarian violence against Muslims. Recently, in the course of the violent genocide in the western part of the country from the hands of the extremists were killed, tortured and left homeless thousands of defenseless Muslims. According to reports, criminals have not given up on any action, including burning children (Anwar 39). This comes at a time when not only the government has not taken serious measures to put an end to the crimes, but the international human rights organizations and their silence unties the ...

The Scientific Revolution has been subjected to philosophical evaluation for quite a long time. Among the most prominent people that have subjected the scientific revolution to a thorough thought process is Thomas Kuhn. According to Thomas Kuhn, scientific history has been characterized by changes in the scientific outlook (Dilworth 70). This can be best explained by the fact that the scientific community usually accepts a dominant paradigm, until anomalies arise. As time passes, scientists question the paradigm itself from which new ideas and theories emerge, further changing the outlook. In support of Kuhn’s views, this paper seeks to explain that the ...

During the early 1980s, it was reported that a mysterious disease was spreading through the country and physically brutalizing the infected before they inevitably succumb to the disease. Scientists all over the country were baffled as to exactly what type of disease this is and what factors were accelerating its spread. Perhaps in one of the earliest breakthroughs as far as diagnosis and treatment of HIV is concerned scientists discovered that people primarily succumbing to this mysterious disease had extremely low counts of t cells in their bodies. The film and the band played on features a Danish woman possibly in ...

Since the dawn of the 20th century, various breeds and mutations of viruses have caused panic to ensue in several countries around the globe. Some of the most popular names that became synonymous to new breeds of illnesses and disease were Anthrax, Mad Cow, and the recent A H1N1. Scientists noted that even the common cold and flu have already transformed due to climate changes, and the advancement of chemicals. Out of all the new breeds of illnesses and viruses that have struck the globe, the Influenza A H1N1 Virus strain had caused much turmoil in both developed and ...

Ethics in Relation to Scientific Communication

Scientific communication is the sharing of scientific information amid scientists and the members of a community through different media. Scientists have an ethical obligation towards good communication between them and the general public. Normally many people view ethics as rules that are used to distinguish between right and wrong. However, ethics can be defined as the standards for conduct that differentiate tolerable and intolerable conduct. Professional scientific papers are not usually available to the general public and scientists are obliged to engage the community through other mediums such as public discussions, articles on the internet and other press and interviews ...