Our senses provide us with information about the world around us almost 24 hours a day. The brain analyzes all this data and forms an idea of what is true or false. However, unfortunately, human vision, taste, and smell are not perfect, and our mind interprets these sensations subjectively. So, an error can sneak into a completely ordered picture of the world, and you no longer understand whether to believe your own eyes or rely on someone else's words? This dilemma can be solved by science, namely the scientific style of thinking.
In this book, scientist Oleksandr Rundel talks about the tools used by scientists to learn about the world. How does experience turn into scientific theories? What is the difference between science and pseudoscience? Why is the simplest explanation sometimes the most correct? Is there a limit to healthy skepticism? Why does the cynic's worldview return us to caveman thinking?
The author talks about all this while explaining why you should not believe the "discoveries" made in secret laboratories, and what the scientific community is here for.
Knowledge and utility cannot be equated. But knowledge is a great tool to get some benefit from it. And if we consider science as a tool in the hands of society, it would be good if it knew what to do with it, Oleksandr Rundel is sure.
Oleksandr Rundel is a scientist who defended his Ph.D. in physics at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Works in IT. In his spare time, he is engaged in the popularization of science. Member of the "My Science" and "Actual Science" project teams.
