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The Need for Critical Thinking and the Scientific Method - Softcover

MacRitchie, Finlay

 
9780815367758: The Need for Critical Thinking and the Scientific Method
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0815367759 ISBN 13: 9780815367758
Verlag: CRC Press, 2018

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The book exposes many of the misunderstandings about the scientific method and its application to critical thinking. It argues for a better understanding of the scientific method and for nurturing critical thinking in the community. This knowledge helps the reader to analyze issues more objectively, and warns about the dangers of bias and propaganda. The principles are illustrated by considering several issues that are currently being debated. These include anthropogenic global warming (often loosely referred to as climate change), dangers to preservation of the Great Barrier Reef, and the expansion of the gluten-free food market and genetic engineering.

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Finlay MacRitchie was a professor in the Department of Grain Science and Industry, Kansas State University from 1997 to 2009. He is presently Professor Emeritus in that department. Prior to this, he was a research scientist in the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) of Australia. He has spent short periods of time as Visiting Professor at the University of Chile and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and as Senior Research Fellow at the Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, the University of Paris V, the University of Lund, Sweden and the University of Tuscia, Italy. MacRitchie has published more than 150 papers in refereed journals and three textbooks –Chemistry at Interfaces (Academic Press, 1990), Concepts in Cereal Chemistry (Taylor and Francis, 2010) and Scientific Research as a Career (Taylor and Francis, 2011). He is listed as an Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) highly cited researcher. He has been a member of the editorial boards of Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, Cereal Chemistry and Journal of Cereal Science. Currently, he is editor-in-chief of Journal of Cereal Science. MacRitchie’s awards include the F.B. Guthrie Medal of the Cereal Division of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) and the Thomas Burr Osborne Medal and George W. Scott Blair Memorial Award of the American Association of Cereal Chemists (now AACC International).

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The book presents a better understanding of the scientific method and promotes critical thinking in the community. This knowledge helps the reader to objectively analyze issues and warns about the dangers of bias and propaganda. The principles are illustrated by considering several issues that are currently being debated.

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Verlag
CRC Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0815367759
ISBN 13 
9780815367758
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
136
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