Of course, people will continue praying for their ailing loved ones, and by chance some of them will recover, and our folk science brains will find meaning in these random patterns. But for us to discriminate true causal inferences from false, real science trumps folk science.
This article was originally published with the title Folk Science.
Subscribe
Buy This Issue
Already a Digital subscriber? Sign-in Now
If your institution has site license access, enter here.
Already a Digital subscriber? Sign-in Now
If your institution has site license access, enter here.
See what we're tweeting about
1 Comments
Add Comment"We live a scant three score and 10 years, far too short a time to witness evolution, continental drift or long-term environmental changes."
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisEvolutionary changes have been observed in Galapagos finches in spans of only one year. Bacteria take even less time to develop resistance to infection. Detractors of Darwin love to say that evolution by natural selection is only a theory. It's not. It has been directly observed and does not require geologic time spans to see. (Geologic processes don't either, actually.)