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Controversies involving science exists in all aspects. Sometimes defined as a "''persistent disagreement''"
/ref> over knowledge, the contrasting opinions of certain topics leaves individuals in a tense setting. A scientific controversy is a substantial disagreement among
/ref> Controversies between scientific and non-scientific ideas are not within the realm of science and are not true scientific controversies.What Controversy: Is a Controversy Misrepresented or Blown out of Proportion?, undsci.berkeley.edu/article/0_0_0/sciencetoolkit_06.
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/ref> As described above, individuals have their opinions based on various subjects such as culture, history, ethics, morals, religion, and more. This leads the stance on certain scientific topics to be very different across the board as perceptions vary from person to person, this is the ultimate reason why scientific controversy exists, to begin with. Science-related controversies all follow similar characteristics. # Conflict over personal beliefs, values, and interests # Public perception # Voices behind opinions presented to the public
/ref> This arises the issue of communicating science in an appropriate manner. Listed below, there are some of the various examples of scientific controversies.
Controversies involving science exists in all aspects. Sometimes defined as a "''persistent disagreement''"/ref> over knowledge, the contrasting opinions of certain topics leaves individuals in a tense setting. A scientific controversy is a substantial disagreement among
scientist
A scientist is a person who conducts scientific research to advance knowledge in an area of the natural sciences.
In classical antiquity, there was no real ancient analog of a modern scientist. Instead, philosophers engaged in the philosop ...
s. A scientific controversy may involve issues such as the interpretation of data
In the pursuit of knowledge, data (; ) is a collection of discrete values that convey information, describing quantity, quality, fact, statistics, other basic units of meaning, or simply sequences of symbols that may be further interpret ...
, which ideas are most supported by evidence
Evidence for a proposition is what supports this proposition. It is usually understood as an indication that the supported proposition is true. What role evidence plays and how it is conceived varies from field to field.
In epistemology, evidenc ...
, and which ideas are most worth pursuing.Anne E. Egger, Ph.D., and Ph.D. Anthony Carpi. “Scientific Controversy: Process of Science.” Visionlearning, Visionlearning, Inc., 12 Feb. 2017, www.visionlearning.com/en/library/Process-of-Science/49/Scientific-Controversy/181./ref> Controversies between scientific and non-scientific ideas are not within the realm of science and are not true scientific controversies.What Controversy: Is a Controversy Misrepresented or Blown out of Proportion?, undsci.berkeley.edu/article/0_0_0/sciencetoolkit_06.
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The origin of science-related controversies
Scientific controversies usually exist in the context of geography, history, and social context. Much like other topics, there are individuals that can’t seem to see eye to eye within the world of science. Depending on the demographic, the way a community sides with an opinion varies. With the natural conflict of having varying opinions, an audience having their biases, and more, makes for controversy. Even more in a public setting, contrasting opinions encourage discourse amongst individuals.Conflict with beliefs
In the situation of even presenting clear and scientifically proven evidence, people will always have their own opinion. "Controversy can be rooted in differing beliefs and values; personal, political, social, and economic interests; fears; and moral and ethical considerations—all of which are central to decisions and typically subject to public debate"."Home - Books - NCBI." National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books./ref> As described above, individuals have their opinions based on various subjects such as culture, history, ethics, morals, religion, and more. This leads the stance on certain scientific topics to be very different across the board as perceptions vary from person to person, this is the ultimate reason why scientific controversy exists, to begin with. Science-related controversies all follow similar characteristics. # Conflict over personal beliefs, values, and interests # Public perception # Voices behind opinions presented to the public
Nature of science-related controversies
With science being inconclusive in itself, it leads to a disconnect between individuals. Oftentimes, science gets roped into personal morals and social values which leads to contrasting ideas.What Are Personal Morals and Values?, askinglot.com/what-are-personal-morals-and-values./ref> This arises the issue of communicating science in an appropriate manner. Listed below, there are some of the various examples of scientific controversies.
See also
* History of the race and intelligence controversy *Biopsychiatry controversy
The biopsychiatry controversy is a dispute over which viewpoint should predominate and form a basis of psychiatric theory and practice. The debate is a criticism of a claimed strict biological view of psychiatric thinking. Its critics include dis ...
* Causes of ADHD
* List of scientific priority disputes
* List of scientific controversies
*Science
Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.
Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence ...
*Scientific method
The scientific method is an empirical method for acquiring knowledge that has characterized the development of science since at least the 17th century (with notable practitioners in previous centuries; see the article history of scientifi ...
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