Without doubt, we must celebrate our scientific success story. But just as surely, scientists must promote their ongoing struggle to understand and explain what it means to be scientific.
In doing so, we hope to improve science's explanatory method, which may ultimately make our enterprise more successful.
Of course, we needn't renounce our present method until an alternative is available. Neither should all scientists focus their career on searching for the alternative; a diverse science is most valuable.
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But by encouraging our students to grapple with the deepest problems of science, we empower them with education's liberty of choice and the necessary tools to forge a stronger scientific future for us all.
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Andrew Baker works in the School of Natural Resource Sciences at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane. His book Questions of Science (Revised Edition) is forthcoming from Pearson Prentice Hall. Andrew teaches in the Environmental Science and Ecology majors at all levels of the undergraduate and postgraduate program. His research interests are varied and broad in scope, including: environmental management, biodiversity, population genetics, systematics/taxonomy, palaeontology, philosophy of science and learning/teaching methodologies.
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