Why Should Science Be Trusted?

Why should Science Be Trusted?

Many people ask the question if science can be trusted, as many people have had doubts about science, like health myths for example. There is plenty of reasons to come to the conclusion that science can actually be trusted. The first reason to why science can be trusted is the method or process that they use. The process that scientists use is called the scientific method and consist of multiple steps.Step One is Posing a Question which allows scientists to give a more specific finding. Step Two is Form a hypothesis which allows scientists to give an educated guess on what will happen and see if what people think is close to what the actual answer is. Step Three is Setting Up the Experiment which allows scientists to figure out the end result of the question being asked. Step Four is Reading The Data which allows scientists to determine the answer and figure out why that was the answer. A piece of evidence shown in class about this method should be trusted is when we looked at the different variables that can occur during a scientific process. The scientific method takes this into account and can be proven invaluable when performing a scientific process.

A prime example of how scientists can be organized is with data. By organizing data, scientists can repeat the same process over and over again with different results. This allows scientists to get a clearer answer on their results, due to the fact that usually, the process’s outcome will be different each time. A piece of evidence of how we did this in class is when we did the data three ways activity. When we looked at investigation 1, we at first saw the plant grow at a 2 cm per day rate and we could have assumed that was the growth, but then we soon learned that the rate fluctuated between the days instead of the constant 2 cm per day