Science Or Pseudoscience
Results cannot be reproduced by others
Pseduoscience
What is the knowledge obtained by observing natural events and conditions in order to discover facts and formulate laws or principles that can be verified or tested
Science
What provides provides a description of how a process in nature occurs?
scientific explanation
What means that you don’t accept everything you hear or read immediately
Being skeptical
What is like science in that it often involves topics
related to the natural world.
pseudoscience
Explanations are modified by new evidence
Science
What is the observations, measurements, and other types of data that people gather and test to support and evaluated scientific explanations
empirical evidence
What are based on observations and data?
Scientific explanations
What involves reasoning through information and making conclusions supported by the evidence.
Logical Thinking
One difference between Science and Pseudoscience.
The biggest differences between science and pseudoscience is that pseudoscience does not use accepted scientific methods.
The evidence that supports pseudoscience may be very vague or lack any measurements.
Some pseudoscientific claims lack the ability to be tested at all.
Other pseudoscientific beliefs are supported only by personal experiences.
Unlike scientists, pseudoscientists might claim that results not proven false must be true.
Pseudoscience asks skeptics to prove it false.
Relies on empirical evidence
Science
Name the three subcategories of science.
Life Science, Earth Science, Physical Science
How will other scientists will then further evaluate the explanation?
By testing it for themselves
What ecologist did we learn about?
Rachel Carson
What can seem like real science, but pseudoscientific ideas are based on faulty logic and are supported by claims that can’t be tested?
Pseudoscience
Not based on logic or logic is exaggerated
Pseudoscience
What type of evidence includes observations and measurements?
Empirical Evidence
How is a scientific explanation evaluated? (Four Parts
Look at your empirical evidence
Consider if the explanation is logical
Think of other tests you could do to support your ideas.
Evaluate the explanation.
What six traits make a good scientific observer?
careful observation, curious, creative, logical, skeptical, and objective.
What is the biggest difference between Science and Pseudoscience?
that pseudoscience does not use accepted scientific methods.
Explanations that are not proven false are assumed to be true
Pseudoscience
What is a process of investigation that in one or more ways resembles science but deviates from the scientific methods.
Pseudoscience
Scientists may begin developing an explanation by gathering what?
Empirical Evidence
Scientist are what about the world around them and about the things they observe.
curious
One similarity of Science and Pseudoscience.
Pseudoscience is like science in that it often involves topics related to the natural world.
People who believe in pseudoscience have explanations that can sound logical.
Like science, pseudoscience uses technical language or scientific-sounding terms.
Both science and pseudoscience claim to be based on empirical data.