Title: Why Science? | Noba
Headings: Why Science?
Why Science?
Learning Objectives
Scientific Advances and World Progress
What Is Science?
Psychology as a Science
Psychological Science is Useful
Ethics of Scientific Psychology
Why Learn About Scientific Psychology?
Conclusions
Outside Resources
Discussion Questions
Vocabulary
Empirical methods
Ethics
Hypotheses
Systematic observation
Theories
References
Authors
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Content: Fritz Haber and Norman Borlaug saved more than a billion human lives. They created the “Green Revolution” by producing hybrid agricultural crops and synthetic fertilizer. Humanity can now produce food for the seven billion people on the planet, and the starvation that does occur is related to political and economic factors rather than our collective ability to produce food. Due to the breakthrough work of Dr. Edward Jenner, millions of vaccinations are now administered around the world every year preventing the spread of many treatable diseases while saving the lives of people of all ages. [ Image: CDC Global Health, https://goo.gl/hokiWz, CC BY 2.0, https://goo.gl/9uSnqN]
If you examine major social and technological changes over the past century most of them can be directly attributed to science. The world in 1914 was very different than the one we see today ( Easterbrook, 2003 ). There were few cars and most people traveled by foot, horseback, or carriage. There were no radios, televisions, birth control pills, artificial hearts or antibiotics. Only a small portion of the world had telephones, refrigeration or electricity.