CAS PS 324 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: On Point, Scientific Literacy, Reward System
19 Sep 2016
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The future of scientific discovery: saving science from itself. Notes based on podcast on point: http://www. wbur. org/onpoint/2016/08/31/science-discovery- research-sarewitz. Emerging of deep problems of peer-reviewed academic science possibly not very good, reliable, useful. Big challenges that scientists want to solve but do not really get at it: ex: cancer. Only since wwii, turned to science to answer largely political questions. Science used to be a limited pursuit of people with a lot of spare time or industry. Technology has allowed us to take on more questions that would not have been taken on before: science in politics often get confused. Can be asked of science, but cannot be answered by science. More research has to help in the mind of scientist. Polarization- two tribes in american politics that are in a current state of war and the scientists become a weapon in this war: science has allowed itself to be used and implicated in these debates.
