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Important or not?
Relevant? How?
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‘in the care of his health and the conduct of his life, the
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ordinary man…draws far less confidently on the resources
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of science than he might do. He is unavoidably ignorant of
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much that is established, and reasonably suspicious of
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much that he hears. He seems
to need…the clearing up
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and simplifying of the science of life’ (Wells et al)
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‘the public needs more than mere factual
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knowledge…;and, it needs more than idealistic images of
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the ‘scientific attitude’ and the ‘scientific
method’. What it
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needs…is a feel for the way that the social system of
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science actually works to deliver what is usually
reliable
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knowledge about the…world.’
(Durant)
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