blogspot.com http://scienceuniverse101.blogspot.com/2011/12/science-is-not.html Science is not democratic we do not vote on scientic theories or natural phenomena that scientists wish to explore.

. A possible exception might be when government supports a particular scientic effort. Science is not based on everyones estimationsome persons are more knowledgeable, wiser, better educated, and better equipped to explore natural phenomena or solutions to problems than are many other people. Science is less personal than other disciplinesalthough scientists are human and thus, to some degree subjective in their judgments, they are, as a group more objective in their attitude than most people. Claiming to be an authority does not make it so. Science is not magicmuch of science may seem like magic to the nonscientist, but there is no occult inuence, sleight of hand, or tricks related to the use of the processes that make up the scientic method. Pseudoscience and junk science are identied as such and exposed. Science is not parapsychologythis includes non sciences and the pseudosciences such as telepathy, clairvoyance, extra-sensory perception (ESP), psychokinesis , and unproven activities such as fortune-telling, tarot cards, reading bones and head bumps, witchcraft, channeling, astrology, etc. science is not politicsalthough politics sometimes attempts to control science for its own purposes, science is best kept out of the political environment except in the use of science in an advisory capacity to the political operatives. on the other hand, politics is best kept out of scientic activities. This is difcult because governments of the developed world have increasingly provided funds to support scientic investigations , and many believe that control follows the money, or as the saying goes: He who pays the piper selects the tunes. Peer review panels have been established to ensure the scientic viability of proposed research sponsored by the government. Unfortunately, as with any system of controls there are a few aws. Furthermore, political science is not a really a science but a study of politics. Just as economics is not a science but rather is more of an art that uses some of the processes of science, such as statistics, to study the economics of a society. At last , Science is not philosophyhistorically there were philosopher/scientists and not much distinction was made until the eighteenth century enlightenment period of history when modern concepts of science as a systematic self-correcting process were developed. No other discipline or intellectual/social activity has a natural built-in self- correcting component.

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