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@theNASEM @SciCommAwards 1/5》Good grief. Someone pointed out to me this muddled mess from the NAS, which seems designed to confuse teachers and students about what science is:
nap.nationalacademies.org/read/13165/cha…

@theNASEM @SciCommAwards 2/5》The NAS's authors not only apparently don't understand what science is, they explicitly reject it. They wrote:

“A focus on practices (in the plural) avoids the mistaken impression that there is one distinctive approach common to all science—a single 'scientific method.'”

@theNASEM @SciCommAwards 3/5》That's completely wrong. Feynman must be spinning in his grave.

@theNASEM @SciCommAwards 4/5》Science is application of the Scientific Method (and there's only one!), to the discovery of knowledge about the physical world. That's all.

There are other intellectual disciplines, but if they don't apply the scientific method, they're not science.

https://twitter.com/ncdave4life/status/1491377615986634755

@theNASEM @SciCommAwards 5/5》Widespread scientific illiteracy is an enormous problem. The NAS should be part of the solution. Instead, with misinformation like this, the NAS makes the problem worse.
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