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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
3. Accept a hypothesis only on the basis of adequate evidence and only if there are sufficient grounds to rule out rival hypotheses. “Accept” not as the ultimate truth, but it’s “the best approximation of truth”.
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Dr Guinness Madasamy 5 years 9 months ago
For instance, you cannot disprove that “A giant white gorilla lives in the Himalayan mountains, but it always avoids humans and covers up any kind of trace it leaves behind”, but there is no reason to have any grain of confidence about this claim’s validity.
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Dr Guinness Madasamy 5 years 9 months ago
Falsifiability is the capacity for some proposition, statement, theory or hypothesis to be proven wrong. That capacity is essential in the scientific method and in scientific thinking. Thus, the inherent incapability of disproving a particular claim, does not render it true.
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Dr Guinness Madasamy 5 years 9 months ago
“It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical.” – Boris Yeltsin.
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Dr Guinness Madasamy 5 years 9 months ago
Meaningful questions in science are typically those of the first type. And being scientifically minded means you don’t perplex your opinions with knowledge of some truth.
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Dr Guinness Madasamy 5 years 9 months ago
For instance, questions like: “How does the flu attack the human immune system?”, “What is the distance between the Earth and the Sun” belong to the first type. Questions like: “Why is there suffering in the world?”, “Why are we here?”, or “Is God real?” can only be answered with an opinion.
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Dr Guinness Madasamy 5 years 9 months ago
It is important to recognise that there are two completely distinct types of questions: the questions that take a piece of knowledge as an answer, and those that can only take an opinion as an answer.
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Dr Guinness Madasamy 5 years 9 months ago
Whenever you are trying to figure out something in your daily life, apply these principles to your reasoning process and you’ll be thinking like a scientist in no time: 1. Identify meaningful questions and state them in a way that is conceivably possible to answer them.
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