Blog Post #3

People who have been considered radical; have time and time again challenged the status quo of the establishment of science.  The first people to suggest that earth is not the center of the universe were not believed and ridiculed.  But, we know now that they were correct in their beliefs.  This shows us that science does not necessarily have a right and wrong way to be conducted (within a code of ethics maybe).  What we have today, the scientific method, is a relatively new concept.  So if it is being taught and ingrained into young scientists: does this mean work done before its invention is any less science?  Hell no.  I think the scientific method serves as a way to counter act people who are constantly skeptical of scientific work.  When scientist write their final draft of their paper, it has a step by step guide and presumably answers the skeptics questions.  We must ask ourselves what science is.  Science is how we explain our natural world.  It does not have to comprised of numbers, but explained in a way that we can understand.  Numbers are not the only way we have to explain things.  But they help.  The basis of science goes back to being like Descartes.  The start of any research is a question, in other words, something we are skeptical of.  It is the duty of any scientist to challenge the status quo and be skeptical of the world we live in, that way we can better understand it.