By: David Van Sickle, Steven Chelak, Maylee Gagnon, Cristopher Lafortune, James Copeland *All authors contributed equally to this work Too few people question the origin of scientific “truth.” Where did the science come from? Why did the scientist publish what they published? It has become a societal norm to define scientists as people of veracity and discovery, an… Read more Constructed Truths and Human Nature
By: Kailana Wang, Jack Tatirosian, Miya Judy, and Ian Campbell *All authors contributed equally to this work* How do we know what is “true nature?” The objective reality, the very truth of nature, as Theodore Porter calls it, is often warped. The aim of science is to present objective truths, that… Read more Standardizing the Quantification of Objectivity
By: Emma Bailey, Joshua O’Grady, Andrew Panneton, Matt Stevens *All authors contributed equally to this work Scientific truth can be defined as objective and dynamic knowledge that is constructed from scientific practice through standardized processes. Despite the dynamic quality of scientific truths, they are always developed from the scientific method, using standardized measurements and experimentation to… Read more Scientific Truth: Components & Construction