Science as a Belief System
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- Created on: 27-09-20 10:13
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2. What evidence does Woolgar use to argue that scientific fact is simply a social construct that scientists have to persuade people into accepting?
- The discovery of ‘pulsars’ by the Cambridge astronomy laboratory in 1967
- The case of Dr Velikovsky in 1950
- Theoretical work on ballistics
3. What is a paradigm according to Kuhn?
- A closed belief system
- Something that tells scientists what reality is, what problems to study, the methods/equipment to use, and what answers they should find
- A false belief that is used to control the underclass
4. What does Popper claim science to be?
- A religion
- An open belief system
- A closed belief system
5. How is the belief of witchcraft among the Azande people highly resistant to change?
- The believers are trapped in their own ‘idiom of belief’ or way of thinking
- The answer to anything and everything is witchcraft
- They’re stupid.
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