Bravo!
And there is the idea (perhaps the same as put forth by Robert) that
"theory" means any cockamamie idea that happens to pop into one's
head, therefore all theories (or at least the ones one doesn't like)
are just cockamamie ideas. This is one of the roots of
anti-intellectualism that n
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Actually the ideas in my posting arose from a physics seminar I took as an
undergraduate with R. Bruce Lindsay, a distinguished physicist and also
philosopher of science. The argument that we can never know anything
absolutely is well accepted in physics where it has led to the understanding
th
At 11:06 AM -0800 11/30/06, Carol Boggs wrote:
>For a summary and the results of Jon Krosnick's study, see
>http://environment.stanford.edu/news/environreport.pdf
>
>Carol Boggs
Also of interest is the earlier
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I recently heard of the Ecologos Institute, a Canadian consortium that has
devised a project they call the Universarium
(http://www.universarium.net/movie.html) to provide "educational
entertainment" as the first step to converting concern about environmental
issues into action on those issues.
Thank you for the summary. I an unable to see that Krosnick's work
addresses any public understanding of climate change. Instead, it appears
to address a vague public sense of environmental health - which includes
climate change - and a strong association between one's opinion of
environment
This is a timely thread for me because I just showed an Inconvenient =
Truth in my environmental studies course this morning. I beleive it =
powerfully conveys the message that people need to be aware of and =
there's no more effective way to present the story than through Gore's =
well crafted sli
In response to Wayne's message: What exactly are high quality minds?
If this isn't meant to be a joke, I would suggest saying something a
little less condescending. I do agree, however, that science is by
nature uncertain, especially an issue as complex as global warming.
In response to Bi
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Thanks for sending the link to the survey. I was quite surprised that the survey
had no questions on whether one can reduce one's own ecological footprint. It is
easy to blame someone else, be it president Bush or american business. But one
appears to forget that american business (or international
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For a summary and the results of Jon Krosnick's study, see
http://environment.stanford.edu/news/environreport.pdf
Carol Boggs
At 08:51 AM 11/30/2006, Felix Martinez wrote:
>I left out the punch line deliberately more because I am afraid that I
>will misrepresent the results of Dr. Krosnick's stud
One of the biggest stumbling blocks I have to deal with when teaching
"what is science" is the "hypothetico-deductive" model of a "theory"
presented in far too many science textbooks. I refer specifically to the
fool notion that theories start out as some sort of speculation that you
develop into a
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There have been some interesting observations over the past week on
this matter. I hope that some of our citizens in the US are not
ignorant of science, as many of them have been my students over the
past 40 years and if they are ignorant, then perhaps I have done my job
properly.
There does s
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I left out the punch line deliberately more because I am afraid that I
will misrepresent the results of Dr. Krosnick's study. But a the
request of some here is an attempt to summarize.
The public is aware of and understands climate change and global
warming. They are also concerned about its
"Maybe that movie wasn't the best method, but what is? "
An excellent question. In my opinion, the answer is: ethical teachers who
are able to present facts to their students without inflaming the issue by
injecting politics. Technology transfer is an important part of what
scientists do. Publ
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Thanks to everyone for your thoughts. The list unanimously concluded "No,
it is not a publication". I appreciate the chance to rant and the
humorous feedback that I received in return. I guess my issue, in the
end, speaks more about to what standards we hold our volunteer-driven
societies an
I believe that the public's scientific ignorance (and it is a mighty
ignorance!) stems from several factors:
1. only rudimentary requirement of science classes in high school (For
example, we were required to take only 2 semesters' worth of science
classes: general science I and general science II
Hi Felix et al.,
And maybe remember the one part of Al Gores 'Inconvenient Truth' where
he is 'analyzing' the discrepancy between public awareness and
scientific results: he cites a Science paper (maybe it was some other
journal, can't remember that particular part) mentioning that 0% of all
scien
To the climate change debaters,
I have been following this thread and have noticed that most post make
the assumption that the public is ignorant about the subject of climate
change and global warming. Fortuitously, we yesterday had a seminar on
that very same topic here at NOAA by Dr. Jon Kro
It is almost axiomatic that nothing can be proven, so any scientific result
is uncertain. Any observation can be explained by saying that the observer
is simply an artifical brain being fed neural impulses by students in some
incredibly advanced neurocybernetics lab. You cannot even prove your o
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I am heartened to learn by the number and quality of the responses to
the Op-Ed piece questioning NSTA's rejection of the movie, "An
Inconvenient Truth," for distribution to classrooms. It is apparent
that some very high-quality minds do read at least some posts and
take the
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