BIOL 1F25 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Measles Vaccine, Knowledge Engineering, Measles
19 Sep 2016
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What is science? a process for obtaining new knowledge the body of knowledge about the natural world/ universe, obtained using the scientific method. Why study science? to understand how scholars obtain new knowledge science has impact on society. ****although some believe that vaccines cause side effects such as the development of autism, there is no scientific evidence, and thus really no correlation between autism and vaccines. Sep. 14, 2016: observe and generalize, make new observations. Eg: rats fed drug x are observed to have lower blood pressure than rats not fed drug x. Other researchers report that drug x lowers blood pressure in dogs and cats with no side effects: generalize. Drug x may lower blood pressure in all mammals: formulate a hypothesis, hypothesis: a possible explanation for the explanations; a unifying model. : drug x lowers blood pressure in all mammals.
