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Science and the Scientific: Growing Scientific Temper among Indians

Start Date :
Sep 16, 2020
Last Date :
Dec 31, 2020
23:45 PM IST (GMT +5.30 Hrs)
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India Science (www.indiascience.in) is an Internet-based science Over-The-Top (OTT) TV channel. It is an initiative of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt of India ...

India Science (www.indiascience.in) is an Internet-based science Over-The-Top (OTT) TV channel. It is an initiative of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt of India , implemented and managed by Vigyan Prasar (VP), an autonomous organisation of Department of Science and Technology. This 24x7 video platform is dedicated to science and technology knowledge dissemination, with a strong commitment to spreading scientific awareness especially with Indian perspectives, ethos and cultural milieu. The initiative is supported by National Council of Science and Technology Communication (NCSTC), DST.

Science and Technology are the main driving forces of the nation and fundamental to the progress and growth. But there is a distinct difference between “science” and “scientific”.

What do you think, is the difference and where do you think they relate with each other? How do the two words contribute to building and reinforcing scientific temper among the youth? Send us your views!

Last date of submission is 31st December 2020

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Dr Guinness Madasamy
Dr Guinness Madasamy 5 years 9 months ago
Scientists say so therefore it must be true – scientists insist and we acquiesce that we cannot understand the reasoning and logic behind these claims. This equates science with mythology and superstition.
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Dr Guinness Madasamy
Dr Guinness Madasamy 5 years 9 months ago
Whether it is the claim that, there is a 70% chance that it will rain tomorrow, that there is water on Mars, that the earth is 4.5 billion years old, that we have discovered the Higgs Boson or that a little bit of red wine reduces the risk of heart disease, most of us take science’s predictions as articles of faith.
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Dr Guinness Madasamy 5 years 9 months ago
If you ask scientists about what other scientists have discovered they will tell you a great deal but if you ask them how these discoveries were made, they will be able to tell you very little.
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Dr Guinness Madasamy
Dr Guinness Madasamy 5 years 9 months ago
I would argue that the process of science is far more important than the product because the product may be of interest only to a few specialists but the process should be of interest to a much wider group of people.
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Dr Guinness Madasamy 5 years 9 months ago
This is where the problem begins. And the problem continues even when scientists discuss among themselves; we are mostly busy describing the products of our research and do not sufficiently emphasize the methods by which we obtained those producers.
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Dr Guinness Madasamy
Dr Guinness Madasamy 5 years 9 months ago
If you ask a high school student who has passed class 10 or indeed ask his or her teacher, I think they will be hard put to define exactly what the scientific method is.
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Dr Guinness Madasamy
Dr Guinness Madasamy 5 years 9 months ago
We do not teach the scientific method in our schools. Instead we burden our children with facts after facts, we burden their backs with bags full of books containing facts but we do not tell them how did we come to know all these facts, or indeed any fact.
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Dr Guinness Madasamy 5 years 9 months ago
Science is thus always a work in progress; all answers are tentative and can be called into question at any time and by anybody.
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