By James Williams
What makes me feel embarrassed is that I found difficult to make the definitions by myself.Here are some of the data from the 74 graduates that I've surveyed to date:
• 76% equated a fact with 'truth' and 'proven'
• 23% defined a theory as 'unproven ideas' with less than half (47%) recognizing a theory as a well evidenced exposition of a natural phenomenon
• 34% defined a law as a rule not to be broken, and forty-one percent defined it as an idea that science fully supports.
The Scientist : Why the Philosophy of Science Matters [2008-10-01]
By Richard Gallagher
You might expect that newly minted science graduatesﾠ-ﾠwho presumably think of themselves as scientists, and who I'd thought of as scientistsﾠ-ﾠwould have a well-developed sense of what science is. So it's pretty shocking to discover that a large proportion of them don't have a clue.Please pay attention to the comment following the article on the site.
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