The Unnatural Nature of Science

Science provides the best way of understanding the world. Public understanding of science is limited: science goes against common sense, the earth moves round the sun. Paranormal beliefs are all too common and they go completely against science, there is a mystical element in our brains. Unlike religion, science is universal and is almost entirely independent of the particular culture in which it is performed. It had is origin in ancient Greece. Whenever a new technology is introduced it is not for the scientists to take an ethical decision about how it should be used, but they must make public the implications.

• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Europaeum review

• Publication date

  2013-07-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Philosophy

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  DOI 10.1017/s1062798713000239
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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