Post No.: 0094 Furrywisepuppy says: Expanding on Post No.: 0064 – on the one hand, the Internet is fantastic because it liberates information, allowing it to be easily and freely shared (e.g. public interest news, facts, lessons), but … Read More
Post No.: 0084 Furrywisepuppy says: The professional press industry is generally a very good thing if it is free to investigate stories and issues of public interest and isn’t controlled by a single monopoly (be it a state … Read More
Post No.: 0064 Furrywisepuppy says: Don’t be a passive news consumer – actively critique everything you read, see or hear, rather than take things at face value as if the words of journalists, scientists or whoever are ‘indisputable … Read More
Post No.: 0052 Furrywisepuppy says: Summary statistics (such as the mean (or the average), median (the ‘middle’ value) and mode (the most frequently occurring value)) based on a sample group – represent that sample group as a whole … Read More
Post No.: 0044 Furrywisepuppy says: Scientific experiments involving new products should really compare to the best existing alternative treatments if one exists (represented fairly e.g. with appropriate dosages) as a control group – rather than to nothing, a … Read More
Post No.: 0034 Furrywisepuppy says: Please understand the differences between a hypothesis, fact, theory and law when talking in scientific contexts and when reading science news… A hypothesis is the starting point of any original scientific experiment … Read More
Post No.: 0017 There are many different types and different qualities of scientific research, and potentially different ways to interpret results. So whenever you read or hear that ‘science says x’ – you must still scrutinise it, question it … Read More
Post No.: 0007 Furrywisepuppy says: Science is not a bible of facts that become sacred, unimpeachable and solidified forever but is a process of coming up with hypotheses, devising methodologies for testing one’s hypotheses, obtaining and recording empirical … Read More
