Qs people asked me on science and my replies to them - part 206 - SCI-ART LAB2024-03-28T11:09:03Zhttps://kkartlab.in/forum/topics/qs-people-asked-me-on-science-and-my-replies-to-them-part-206?groupUrl=some-science&feed=yes&xn_auth=noPhony Karate Master - No Touc…tag:kkartlab.in,2020-09-07:2816864:Comment:1642072020-09-07T04:29:06.749ZDr. Krishna Kumari Challahttps://kkartlab.in/profile/DrKrishnaKumariChalla
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Q: Why do scientists view…tag:kkartlab.in,2020-08-27:2816864:Comment:1638912020-08-27T05:10:31.149ZDr. Krishna Kumari Challahttps://kkartlab.in/profile/DrKrishnaKumariChalla
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<div class="q-relative spacing_log_answer_content"><div class="q-text"><p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span>Krishna: Not all ‘scientists’ can do this! Only if you get a proper training and have a highly critical thinking mind can you see not only science but the universe differently from others around you.</span></p>
<p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span>I will give examples here. We are a bunch of researchers working in a lab.</span></p>
<blockquote class="q-box qu-color--gray qu-borderWidth--retinaOverride qu-borderWidth--thick qu-borderStrictLeft"><p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span>One of my colleagues, who is also a microbiologist, once told me not to eat pulses when I cut my finger. "Eating pulses will make the injured part gather more puss", to my utter shock!</span></p>
<p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span>I hit her on her head and said: "You dumb idiot, tell me what happens when you cut your finger?"</span></p>
<p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span>"Bacteria and other microbes will enter into your body through the cut finger", she said innocently. "They will gather around the wound".</span></p>
<p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span>"Then?", I asked .</span></p>
<p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span>"Then your WBC will fight with them"</span></p>
<p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span>"Next what happens?"</span></p>
<p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span>"Some of the Microbes and WBC that are dead during the processes will form puss".</span></p>
<p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span>" In fact the proteins in pulses are useful in fighting the infection!"</span></p>
<p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span>"Yes, I know this!", she said again innocently!</span></p>
<p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span>"Then why did you say eating pulses will form the puss?"</span></p>
<p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span>She looked at me blankly and said, "Because my mother told me that!"</span></p>
<p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span>I put my hand to my head and screamed, "Oh, for the world's sake, forget what your mother and grandmother told you. Use your own grey matter. What is the use of studying Microbiology if you still want to listen to what your ignorant mother says?"</span></p>
<p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span>That is the affect your family , loved ones and your culture will have on you! Mere science literacy cannot remove this affect on the person.<br/>Are you shocked too? Don't be. Most of the time this is what happens. The science education you get in schools, colleges and universities will be unable to overcome the cultural conditioning of your mind done by your loved ones most of the time. People fail to use their own brains/minds to critically think what is good, what is truth and what is a myth.</span></p>
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<p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span class="q-inline"><a class="q-box qu-cursor--pointer qu-hover--textDecoration--underline" title="kkartlab.in" href="https://kkartlab.in/group/some-science/forum/topics/science-museums-fairs-and-shows-shouldn-t-be-aimed-at-students-an" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Science museums, fairs and shows shouldn't be aimed at students and...</a></span></p>
<p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span>Fitting in with your friends and family matters a lot more to people than getting climate science right!</span></p>
<p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span>Moreover, research shows (1) that it is difficult to change when you are alone. It can be difficult for people to change aspects of their personality based on desire alone. That doesn't mean people can't make the changes they want. They just might need outside help doing so—from a professional, a friend, family, group and societies in which they live.</span></p>
<p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span>Research also shows (2) that life's choices like energy related decisions can be contagious and are influenced by peer's behaviour.</span></p>
<blockquote class="q-box qu-color--gray qu-borderWidth--retinaOverride qu-borderWidth--thick qu-borderStrictLeft"><p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span>Science training in several parts of the world - is faulty. People treat it like coaching in car driving - learn it on the road and forget it when you go home. Science is limited to the classrooms of the schools, colleges, universities and research institutes. You can erase it from your memory as soon as you cross their gates! This is the attitude of some of the people with regard to science.</span></p>
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<p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span class="q-inline"><a class="q-box qu-cursor--pointer qu-hover--textDecoration--underline" title="kkartlab.in" href="https://kkartlab.in/forum/topics/science-communicators-get-thick-skinned-to-communicate-science-wi?groupUrl=some-science" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Science communicators, get thick skinned to communicate science wit...</a></span></p>
<p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span>Moreover, various </span><span class="q-inline"><a class="q-box qu-cursor--pointer qu-hover--textDecoration--underline" title="kkartlab.in" href="http://kkartlab.in/group/some-science/forum/topics/qs-on-science-and-my-replies-to-them-part-108" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">cognitive biases<span> </span></a></span><span>, </span><span class="q-inline"><a class="q-box qu-cursor--pointer qu-hover--textDecoration--underline" title="kkartlab.in" href="https://kkartlab.in/group/some-science/forum/topics/cognitive-distortions-in-thinking-processes" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Cognitive-distortions</a></span><span> and </span><span class="q-inline"><a class="q-box qu-cursor--pointer qu-hover--textDecoration--underline" title="kkartlab.in" href="https://kkartlab.in/group/some-science/forum/topics/fallacies-that-effect-science-analysis-comprehension-interpretati" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">fallacies</a></span><span> effect the way you approach your science.</span></p>
<p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span>Only a handful of people will have the courage and ability to think </span><span class="q-inline"><a class="q-box qu-cursor--pointer qu-hover--textDecoration--underline" title="kkartlab.in" href="https://kkartlab.in/forum/topics/some-questions-people-asked-on-science-and-my-replies-to-them-50?amp&groupUrl=some-science" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">think critically</a></span><span> and differently from their loved ones and friends. And only a few amongst them will have the courage to accept the truth, stand by it and swim against the current !</span></p>
<p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span>Having said that the answer to your main question is: when you can see the reality happening before your eyes, when your understanding goes to the ultimate depths of knowledge, when your mind can register it correctly the way it should be done, when you have evidence before your eyes, it changes your total perception.</span></p>
<p class="q-text qu-display--block"><span>Footnotes</span></p>
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<li class="q-relative"><span class="q-inline"><a class="q-box qu-cursor--pointer qu-hover--textDecoration--underline" title="techxplore.com" href="https://techxplore.com/news/2020-02-energy-choices-contagious-insights-peer.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">https://techxplore.com/news/2020-02-energy-choices-contagious-insig...</a></span></li>
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