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2009 - the Year of Science  Tags: sicence physics environment evolution energy technology scientific_method sustainability natural_resources  

This site concerning the re-introduction of science into policy-making will evolve throughout the year.
Last update: Nov 19th, 2009 URL: http://wiu.libguides.com/2009yearofscience  Print Guide  RSS Updates

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Search tips: Process and Nature of Science; Communicating Science        (January)

Words and phrases useful in searching the library catalog, WestCat, or any of the databases to which WIU Libraries subscribe, are listed below:

scientific method
science philosophy
science methodology
scientific journalism
science journalism
science in mass media
 

Webliography

Scientific Method Lab
This interactive tool leads you through the steps of the scientific method.

Scientific Method Flowchart
This chart for kids is available courtesy of NASA.

The Scientific Method Today
This indepth website covers the history and reasoning behind the Scientific Method as well as the individual steps.

Shaping the message, distorting the science : media strategies to influence science policy.
This hearing describes the attempt by the oil industry to cast doubt on the science behind global warming and the White House redaction of scientific papers before their public release in order to defend their non-support of international environmental protocols and treaties.




 

Bibliography

Scientific method in practice / Hugh G. Gauch, Jr.
Q175 .G337 2003

Quantum leaps in the wrong direction : where real science ends-- and pseudoscience begins / Charles M. Wynn and Arthur W. Wiggins ; with cartoons by Sidney Harris.
Q172.5.P77 W96 2001

The structure of scientific revolutions / Thomas S. Kuhn
Q175 .K95

Epicurus’ scientific method / Elizabeth Asmis.
B573 .A84 1984

Religion and scientific method / George Schlesinger.
BL200 .S345

Charles Peirce’s theory of scientific method [by] Francis E. Reilly.
B945.P44 R4

Archeological explanation : the scientific method in archeology / Patty Jo Watson, Steven A. LeBlanc, Charles L. Redman.
CC72 .W37 1984

1984 AMA Winter Educators’ Conference : scientific method in marketing / edited by Paul F. Anderson and Michael J. Ryan.
HF5411 .A53 1984

The art of straight thinking : a primer of scientific method for social inquiry / Edwin Clarke.
BF455 .C65

Behaviourism and the limits of scientific method / Brian D. Mackenzie.
BF199 .M22 1977

Conservatism, radicalism, and scientific method; an essay on social attitudes, by A. B. Wolfe...
HM251 .W7

Creepy crawlies and the scientific method : over 100 hands-on science experiments for children / Sally Stenhouse Kneidel.
QUAD. 591.078 K68cr

The development of scientific method / Fowler, W. S. (William Stewart)
Q175 .F75 1962

Environmental communication and the public sphere / Robert Cox.
GE25 .C69 2006

It ain’t necessarily so : how media make and unmake the scientific picture of reality / by David Murray, Joel Schwartz, and S. Robert Lichter.
PN4784.T3 M87 2001


 

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