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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
The final step of the scientific method is to construct, support, or cast doubt on a scientific theory. A theory in science is not a guess, speculation, or suggestion, which is the popular definition of the word "theory."
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Dr Guinness Madasamy 5 years 9 months ago
Some even claim that their facts are absolutely or ultimately true, something science would never claim. But their "facts" are not reliable knowledge, because while they might fortuitously be true they have not been justified by a reliable method.
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Dr Guinness Madasamy
Dr Guinness Madasamy 5 years 9 months ago
Many other areas of human thought and philosophy, and many other knowledge systems (methods of gaining knowledge), exist that claim to have factual knowledge about the world.
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Dr Guinness Madasamy 5 years 9 months ago
Many scientific facts violate common sense and the beliefs of ancient philosophies and religions, so many people persist in denying them, but they thereby indulge in irrationality and perversity.
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Dr Guinness Madasamy 5 years 9 months ago
There are many such scientific facts: the existence of gravity as a property of all matter, the past and present evolution of all living organisms, the presence of nucleic acids in all life, the motion of continents and giant tectonic plates on Earth, the expansion of the universe following a giant explosion, and so forth.
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Dr Guinness Madasamy 5 years 9 months ago
There are many different kinds of truth, such as logical truth, emotional truth, religious truth, legal truth, philosophical truth, etc.; it should be clear that this essay deals with scientific truth, which, while certainly not the sole truth, is nevertheless the best truth humans can possess about the natural world.
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Dr Guinness Madasamy 5 years 9 months ago
A scientific fact is a highly corroborated hypothesis that has been so repeatedly tested and for which so much reliable evidence exists, that it would be perverse or irrational to deny it.
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Dr Guinness Madasamy 5 years 9 months ago
A highly corroborated hypothesis becomes something else in addition to reliable knowledge--it becomes a scientific fact.
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