I belong to a team called "Sophia Racing" right now. There, students from engineering department design a racing car, build it, and make it run at the competitions held by Formula SAE(Society of Automotive Engineering). This society is for providing opportunities to future engineers and the future industries students will work for.
Why am I talking about a team at school on this blog? Well I was a person who has been believing that science is something pretty close to a perfection in this world...until I see some mistaken analyses, misunderstandings, and unexpected results of experiments, and miscommunication within the team. They sometimes come up with an idea to explain something, then nobody criticize it, then the idea will be used "scientifically."
I think a lot of people especially who do not major in science tend to believe this magical label "scientifically proved," and I think this is one of the reason why people blame science overwhelmingly when there are mistakes.
One paragraph from "Risk and Blame" written by Mary Douglas reminded me of the imperfection of science once again and human tendency of blaming science. "Knowledge always lacks. Ambiguity always lurks."Science can be a wrong explanation.
Another quote that I felt related but need more consideration on what she means by this...
"We have to get used to these anxieties, this mathematics of probability intruding into our intimate concerns, this bogus objectivity, this coding of risks in our present culture. (pg.16)"
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