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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
7. Be statistically minded. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle.
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Dr Guinness Madasamy
Dr Guinness Madasamy 5 years 9 months ago
Don’t let your excitement blur your rationality. Critically think about novel claims. Sieve them through the skeptical filter, especially if they are particularly surprising, and therefore interesting. Remember that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Sethupathy S
Sethupathy S 5 years 9 months ago
Spiritual Science -- Scientists have long been trying to understand human consciousness – the subjective “stuff” of thoughts and sensations inside our minds. In Modern world Spiritual and Moral science should be a part of our students curriculum which is much needed in this current situation.
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Dr Guinness Madasamy
Dr Guinness Madasamy 5 years 9 months ago
6. Don’t be too ready to abandon previously held beliefs on the light of new evidence. “Believe what you like, but don’t believe everything you read without questioning it.” – Pauline Baynes.
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Dr Guinness Madasamy
Dr Guinness Madasamy 5 years 9 months ago
“Most people do not have a problem with you thinking for yourself, as long as your conclusions are the same as or at least compatible with their beliefs.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana.
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Dr Guinness Madasamy
Dr Guinness Madasamy 5 years 9 months ago
Learn about your mind’s innate limitations, continuously remind yourself of their existence and try to recognise and reverse, to the degree possible, their effects on your reasoning process.
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Dr Guinness Madasamy
Dr Guinness Madasamy 5 years 9 months ago
Be aware of the fact that the device you use to derive conclusions and generate explanations – your brain – is often a poor data gathering machine (there will always be that study or source you are missing), full of cognitive biases and prone to psychological distortions
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Dr Guinness Madasamy
Dr Guinness Madasamy 5 years 9 months ago
4. Cultivate the virtue of intellectual humility. “Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.” – Henry Ford.
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Dr Guinness Madasamy
Dr Guinness Madasamy 5 years 9 months ago
“Evidence” not through personal experiences or plausible hearsay stories, but information gained through methodologically sound experimentation and statistics.
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