Eyes of Nye Questions due 9/1/2016:
1. What can you use to tell the difference between science and pseudoscience?
2. Why is it important that an outcome be repeatable?
3. According to the National Science Foundation, what % of people believe in ESP?
4. When the zodiac system was designed 2000 years ago by the Babylonians, the sun would rise through the current astrological sign. Now 2000 years later, this does not happen. What has caused this change?
5. Why did the FDA ban ephedra?
6. How much money do Americans spend annually on dietary supplements?
Reflection questions:
7. What are the differences between pseudoscience and what we commonly accept and real science?
8. Is there any scientific merit or danger in believing pseudoscience?
1. What can you use to tell the difference between science and pseudoscience?
2. Why is it important that an outcome be repeatable?
3. According to the National Science Foundation, what % of people believe in ESP?
4. When the zodiac system was designed 2000 years ago by the Babylonians, the sun would rise through the current astrological sign. Now 2000 years later, this does not happen. What has caused this change?
5. Why did the FDA ban ephedra?
6. How much money do Americans spend annually on dietary supplements?
Reflection questions:
7. What are the differences between pseudoscience and what we commonly accept and real science?
8. Is there any scientific merit or danger in believing pseudoscience?
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