• Question: as scientists, are there many theories that you do not agree with?

    Asked by jaidespence to David, Luna, Mark, Melanie, Probash on 23 Mar 2011 in Categories: .
    • Photo: David Pyle

      David Pyle answered on 23 Mar 2011:

      Well, there are many theories that I am sceptical of – and many that I would want to think of a way of testing. Did life come from space, for example?

    • Photo: Luna Munoz

      Luna Munoz answered on 23 Mar 2011:

      Of course! There are theories that I don’t agree with, such that I don’t think they are very plausible. As a scientist, however, I need to be sure that I can show that one theory explains a certain phenomenon better than another using evidence. I also have to be sure that I don’t let my personal opinion to influence my experiments, since I try to be an honest scientist 😉

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