Scientific Argumentation. SCIENTIFIC ARGUMENTATION The Science Teacher, Summer 2013 vol. 80 no. 5 Excerpts of Six Articles ENSI Lessons for Argumentation Click Here for PDF Copy of This Page What is Scientific Argumentation?
During the processes of scientific inquiry, scientists will make claims, based on observable evidence, and will clarify with justification of the evidence as relevant to the claims. Other scientists often make rebuttal claims, pointing to other evidence that counters the evidence for the previous claim. The key points are that any scientific claims coming from an investigation must be based on observable (empirical) evidence, and that evidence must be justified as connected with the claims.
The NGSS includes many references to scientific argumentation. It's important to know that scientific argumentation is quite different from typical arguing that goes on between people, which is seldom based on tangible evidence, and typically involves opinions, beliefs and emotion. Evolution of Cancer article. Colony Collapse Disorder video and article. The seven deadly sins of health and science reporting. Benjamin Franklin said two things are certain in life: death and taxes.
Another one we could add to this list is that on any given news website and in almost all print media there will be articles about health and nutrition that are complete garbage. Some articles that run under the health and nutrition “news” heading are thought provoking, well researched and unbiased, but unfortunately not all. And to help you traverse this maze – alongside an excellent article about 20 tips for interpreting scientific claims – we will look at seven clichés of improper or misguided reporting.
If you spot any of these clichés in an article, we humbly suggest that you switch to reading LOLCats, which will be more entertaining and maybe more informative too. 1. Why? Details: Sometimes it is possible to disprove something confidently, but that mainly works in domains like physics. Health and nutrition is even worse because it deals with how we interact with our equally messy environment. 2. Why? 3. Why? News - Up to the minute news and features from Science. Science News.
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But when it comes to the diversity of DNA found in each borough's subway stops--the Bronx takes the prize. "I live in Brooklyn so I was kind of hoping Brooklyn might be top of the list but we're second place. Manhattan in the middle. And then Queens, and then Staten Island. " Christopher Mason, a geneticist "a very curious geneticist, I'd say" at the Weill Cornell Medical College in Manhattan. Mason's curiosity led him and his colleagues on a five-borough tour of New York’s 468 subway stations, and the Staten Island Railway. The DNA at each subway stop mirrored the genetic diversity of the local residents—and, what they like to eat. The team turned up some 1,700 organisms in total. Despite the mysterious genetic sequences, Mason says the research has made his commute a little more carefree.
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