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More Information About This
Worldview Theme |
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a diamond
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...individual <---> knowledge
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the theme is paired with: #12B Nonrational
Knowing to make Choice
#10 in the Choices We Make cards |
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this theme as presented in
older version of theme
structure: version 1.0
version 2.0 & 3.0 is this theme new to version 4?--NO
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click to look at the Project Worldview Cultural
Literacy Encyclopedia Related Words,
Beliefs, Background articles for the above choice |
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Project Worldview authored discussion,
Worldview Watch related issues, songs, etc. |
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Discussion from The Worldview
Literacy Book
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Songs
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| "Science--What
is It?" in chapter 5 pp167-175 in Choices We Make in the
Global Village by Stephen P. Cook |
| book
review: The Knowledge Machine
by Michael Strevens |
| Worldview
Watch #81 posted 7/10/2025 Rocks,
Religion, Romance |
| Worldview
Watch issue #79 posted 2/2/2025
Questions,
Scientists, and Seekers |
| Worldview Watch
issue #58, posted 10/18/2018 Believing Scientists or Politicians? |
| Worldview Watch issue #43, posted
3/14/2015: Celebrating Each Day: Pi, St. Patrick,
Uncle John and Uncle Albert |
| Worldview
Watch issue #31: God, Science, Faith |
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Wikipedia articles related to this theme:
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observation
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Scientific Method
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hypothesis
testing
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Reproducibility
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Reductionism
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History
of the Scientific Method |
| Measurement
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Design of
Experiments |
abhors
Scientific
Misconduct |
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worldview internal inconsistency related: Strongly valuing this
theme and any of the themes in the list below is a contradiction:
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| #4 Spreading Disinformation
/ Tactical Deception |
#5B Vitalism
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#7A
Mysticism
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#7B Magic
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| #8B
Belief in a Personal God
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#9A Religious
Fundamentalism
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#9B In God's Hands:
Apocalypticism
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#12A Polytheism,
Animism, Pagan
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| #15 The Group
Think Imperative
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#18A
Passionately Impulsive
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#25 Evil is Out There
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#36B Conspiracies
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#201B Positive Expectations |
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More to Explore --Worldview Theme
#6B: Scientific
Method |
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The
Scientific Method (from WikiBooks open content textbook collection) |
| The
Scientific Method (concise presentation from Intel International
Science Fair & Science Service) |
| Overview
of the Scientific Method (from Science Buddies website / science fair
perspective) |
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Scientific
Method: A Historical and Philosophical Introduction, by Barry Gower (read
portions at Google Books) |
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The
Scientific Method (from UC Riverside physics class notes) |
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Science Clarified
(on line science & technology encyclopedic collection of articles) |
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science
as a Candle in the Dark, by Carl Sagan |
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Scientific Thinking
and the Scientific Method, by Steven D. Schafersman |
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"What
Does it Mean to be Evidence-based?" (essay on Oregon
Research Institute site) |
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New
map allows you to see what kinds of rocks and sediments are beneath your
feet by Jordan Joseph
(report posted on Earth.com October 2025) |
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The
Trump administration’s assault on science feels eerily Soviet by Lois
Parshley (from The Grist August 15 2025)
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Science
Under Trump--Unscientific Methods (from The Economist February
22 2025) |
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Astronomers
“Astonished” as Citizen Scientists Reveal Jupiter’s Clouds Are Not
What We Thought (from University of Oxford Jan 9 2025)
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Cosmic
Rays Date the Precise Year of 7000-year-old Settlement! (nice example
of Doing science on Ancient Origins web site May 24 2024) |
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Without Einstein, we might've missed General Relativity - by Ethan Siegel (posted on
Big Think August 23 2022) |
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Hollywood Can Take On Science Denial: Don’t Look
Up Is Example by Rebecca Oppenheimer (film review from Scientific
American Feb 2022) |
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Journeys to Humanism: Launching into the Scientific
Worldview by Jon Boncek
(personal account from The Humanist Jan 26 2022) |
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The
Knowledge Machine by Michael Strevens (book review by Jennifer Szalai
in The NY Times Oct 7 2020) |
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Why
Trust Science? by Naomi Oreskes (book
review and interview by Zoe Corbyn in The Guardian November 3 2019) |
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Science
Forum: Ten common statistical mistakes to watch out for when writing or
reviewing a manuscript (post
on eLifeSciences.org Oct 10 2019) |
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Scientists
rise up against statistical significance by
Valentin Amrhein, Sander Greenland, Blake McShane (posted
on Nature March 20 2019)
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"Will
the world embrace Plan S, the radical proposal to mandate open access to
science papers?" by Tania Rabesandratana (from Science Jan
3 2019) |
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Scientific
Honesty (article about algorithms to test published data from The
Economist June 16 2018) |
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“Make
replication studies ‘a normal and essential part of science,’ Dutch
science academy says” By
Matt Warren (in Science Jan. 16, 2018)
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Scientific
Publishing Review and Prosper (article
from The
Economist June 3 2017) |
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Curiosity
Stream (June 11 2017 Science
News article about science related documentary streaming service) |
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“Actionable
Predictions” by Roger Highfield (Essay
2017 contribution to Edge.org)
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“Uncertainty”
by Lawrence M. Krauss (its place in science, Essay 2017 contribution to Edge.org) |
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Scientific
Publishing (report from The Economist November 26 2016) |
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Why
Bad Science Persists (report from The Economist September 24
2016 |
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"When
Science Goes Wrong: Computer Says Oops" (report on neuroscience
modeling mishaps from The Economist July 16 2016) |
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What
We Cannot Know by Marcus du Sautoy (re: limits of scientific
knowledge; book review from The Economist June 18 2016) |
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"No,
Science Is Not Faith-Based" by Ethan Siegel
(essay posted March 8 2016 on Forbes
magazine website) |
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"Scientific
Method: Let's Just Try That Again" (article about reproducible
results from The Economist Feb 6 2016)
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"This
star probably isn’t surrounded by ‘alien megastructures.’ But
what’s making it act so strangely?" by Sarah Kaplan (example of
testing hypotheses, article in The Washington Post Jan 19 2016) |
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"The
debate over genetically modified organisms is a great case study in how to
think critically" by William Saletan (article posted August 2015
on Slate) |
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"10
studies proving GMOs are harmful? Not if science matters"
(Nov 2015 article posted on The Genetic Literacy Project) |
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The
Scientific Method in Practice, by Hugh G. Gauch (read
portions of this 2003 book at Google Books) |
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Realism,
Rationalism, and the Scientific Method, by Paul Feyerabend (read
portions of this book at Google Books) |
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The
Invention of Science by David Wootten (review of 2015 book in The
Economist October 24 2015) |
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Introduction
to the Scientific Method (from Rochester University) |
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Science.gov ("gateway to over
50 million pages of authoritative selected science information") |
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Scientific
American's
Citizen Science Project's Page |
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Zooniverse (citizen science
network helps classify galaxies, study exoplanets, etc.) |
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Scientific
Reports (an online, free and open access primary research publication
from publishers of Nature) |
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Data
Analysis: On the Other Hands (report on how bias can creep into
analysis, from The Economist October 10 2015) |
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"The
Myth of Basic Science" by Matt Ridley (The Wall Street Journal
opinion piece Oct 23 2015)
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"The
New Study Shows that Some Old Psychological Studies Can't be Trusted"
by Deborah Grace (Aug 29 2015 article posted on Pioneer News) |
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"A
Future Segregated by Science?" by Charles M. Blow (opinion piece NY
Times Feb 2 2015) |
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"How Science Goes Wrong--Unreliable
Research: Trouble in the Lab" (cover story from The Economist October 19 2013) |
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"From
Global Warming to Fluoride--Why Do People Deny Science?" by A. Varki
and D. Brower (May 25 2013 article on Salon.com) |
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Ignorance: How it Drives
Science by Stuart Firestein (more on this 2012 book from Oxford
University Press) |
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"Citizen
Science: People Power" by Eric Hand (re: what networks of human
minds can do; in Nature Aug 4 2010) |
| The
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot (re: science &
ethics questions; review in NY
Times Feb 2010) |
| The
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The Sequel, by Rebecca Skloot
(March 2013 opinion piece in NY Times) |
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"What
is Science?" by Helen Quinn (comments on this article, published
in Physics Today, July 2009) |
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Carbon Dreams by
Susan M. Gaines (this 2001 "sci lit" novel offers insight
into what doing science is like for a young woman researcher) |
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The Public Library of Science
(online repository of peer reviewed papers) |
| National
Science Digital Library |
| Scientific
American (website of long-time popular American science magazine) |
| Nature
(website of a leading journal for publishing scientific research |
| 60
second Science Podcasts (short video programs from Scientific
American) |
| "Islam and Science: The Road to Renewal"
(article from Jan 26 2013 issue of The Economist) |
| Scientific
Method Flowchart |
| Science
for All Americans (online book covering the basics of science, from
AAAS) |
| Some
Notes on the Nature of Science |
| An
Introduction to Science |
| Philosophy
of Science |
| American
Association for the Advancement of Science |
| The
National Center for Science Education ("working to
keep evolution and climate science in public school science education") |
| Integrated
Scientific Method |
| Popper
and Kuhn on the Evolution of Science |
| Scientific
Method and the Philosophy of Science |
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The Scientific Method Today, by
Norman Edmund |
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The
Myth of the Magical Scientific Method, by Terry Halwes |
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The Scientific Method in the Movie October
Sky, by Alida Clarke |
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The
Scientific Method (from mongoose metrics keyword call tracking) |
| quotes
related to science |
| quotes
from scientists |