Other - Science - January 2007

In the main page of the science portal of Wikipedia there is a statement that, "Science typically, therefore, rejects...arguments from authority..." The link to the subtitled article, "Conditions for a legitimate argument from authority" has the statement:

"A technique is needed to adjudicate disagreements among equally qualified authorities. If scientific testing of the claim is not possible, then the majority of expert opinions is sometimes used to develop a consensus."

Do you consider this to be an accurate statement?

2007-01-22 07:06:48 · 11 answers · asked by youngatheart 3

2007-01-22 06:56:16 · 4 answers · asked by BMW M5 3

There was a scientist who proved that the bias of the experimentor had a direct effect on the results of an experiment. He did this by placing before his subjects a frame that was designed to have a ball baring put in the top. The ball baring would then either pop to the left or to the right. After that, the ball baring fell to a second junction where again it could go left or right. If it went right first time and left second or vica versa it would be beneath the entrance hole.

This structructure carried on in this way forming a triangle. The ball barings were more likely to end up in the centre than they were to end up at the edge.

The scientist whos name eludes me asked his subjects to 'will' the ball barings one way. He would then ascertain through probability theory whether the ball barings had, in fact, skewed.

Remarkably, he found that they had. And when he asked his subjects to will them the other way they did.

Sound familiar? What was his name?

2007-01-22 06:46:50 · 1 answers · asked by tuthutop 2

Meaning if the Earth is like a car's motor and you run it low on oil it tends to start to run hotter and eventually lock-up, couldnt this be happening to the Earth and government that doenst want to let the Oil Dream go is covering that part of Global Warming up so they stay rich till they die and then leave the mess to the future.

2007-01-22 06:09:59 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-22 03:57:33 · 7 answers · asked by fancytailgoldfish 1

2007-01-22 02:40:37 · 9 answers · asked by henry de great 1

2007-01-22 02:00:49 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'd like to know if I can read scientific journals online? I've read many research papers and there're so many references cited at the end. If I'm doing my thesis, how do I search for facts? I can't be reading all the journals from page to page.
Thanks in advance.

2007-01-22 01:08:26 · 2 answers · asked by Julian C 2

I'd like to know if I can read scientific journals online? I've read many research papers and there're so many references cited at the end. If I'm doing my thesis, how do I search for facts? I can't be reading all the journals from page to page.

2007-01-22 01:07:39 · 1 answers · asked by Julian C 2

if aliens that visit our planet are the dominating species of their planet then do you think they would resemble us, i mean with having fingers and hands and standing on 2 feet or do you think they will be completely different

2007-01-22 01:05:57 · 37 answers · asked by russell07 1

Can someone help me state with reasons whether the following list have dipoles or not and if they do which direction they are in?

H20
Br2
BeBr2
HBr
CCl4
CHCl3
NCl3
BBr3
CO2
CH3OH

Thank you

2007-01-22 00:41:45 · 4 answers · asked by helenlouisewelsby 1

hi , i was reding acard for birthdays my birthday is 26feb , they rite in the card tht BILL JOHANSON was born that day so im asking about him
plz help
thank u all

2007-01-22 00:13:46 · 4 answers · asked by cute 2

Is science useful or harmful to us?

2007-01-21 23:20:24 · 14 answers · asked by Anil D 1

please answer this as soon as you can.

2007-01-21 22:40:07 · 2 answers · asked by hawk 1

Science question for studies

2007-01-21 22:10:12 · 3 answers · asked by russell07 1

2007-01-21 21:47:11 · 9 answers · asked by angel 2

2007-01-21 20:21:06 · 6 answers · asked by chandrat 1

was 1900 a leap year?

2007-01-21 20:09:41 · 23 answers · asked by Sumit G 1

2007-01-21 17:31:57 · 6 answers · asked by Lisa M 1

It's 2. Have some free points. Answer this question with anything. Enlighten me.

2007-01-21 15:40:13 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

its for a science project

2007-01-21 15:06:58 · 2 answers · asked by Andrew M 1

2007-01-21 14:31:43 · 8 answers · asked by **POPULAR!** 2

Polls show that a higher percentage of Americans believe in Creationism and reject evolution than any other industrialized nation in the world today. Statistics on student performance in schools, particularly in science and mathematics, ranks far behind the industrialized nations of the world. Is there a connection?

2007-01-21 14:26:45 · 10 answers · asked by Scythian1950 7

2007-01-21 12:47:13 · 6 answers · asked by freecharlie8 1

I would like to see some illustrations on these giant bugs. I've found a little bit of written information, but nothing exciting, and not one photo when researching on the internet. I would think this would be a fascinating topic and that there would be alot of research material out there, but I'm not finding any! Anyone know of any?

2007-01-21 12:24:01 · 2 answers · asked by paintgirl 4

for my science fair, im not sure how to do my graphs, beacuse ok, im comparing vitamin c in different fruit juices, and how i compared it was by color, so like i have tomato juice freshly squeezed and tomato juice store bought, and one had lighter color which had more vitamin c and the other was darker meaning it had less, and so i had a total of 6 different juices like that, but i dont know how to make a graph for them..

2007-01-21 12:00:22 · 1 answers · asked by paras360 1

Is there any chemicals, minerals, etc.? It's for a 3rd grade science project that my little sis is doing and needs that information. If anyone has a link or something that would be great. THANKS!

2007-01-21 11:26:23 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-21 11:16:53 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

Imagine a chain of people holding hands the longest ever. So the first answerer says ONE and the next TWO and so on. Will the chain of people be long and who will be the first to say the wrong number? The 10 points goes to the number drawn at random so good luck.

2007-01-21 10:54:02 · 4 answers · asked by Exterminator 4

The project is on: what is more susceptible to mold, organically or conventionally grown tomatoes?

2007-01-21 10:04:51 · 6 answers · asked by crucian_girl 1