PHILIPPINE NORMAL UNIVERSITY

The National Center for Teacher Education

College of Graduate Studies and Teacher Education Research
Science Education Specialization

Name:

Junrey D. Lidres

MASEd Chemistry

Science and its Critics

Science is a good thing for an obvious reasons. Science given as electricity, drinking
water, penicillin, contraception and air travel. Science is not without its critics like producing
weapons of mass destruction.
The words Science and scientific acquired peculiar cachet in a modern times.
Scientific should have acquired the high status in which science is held in modern society.
Scientism is a pejorative label used by some philosophers to describe what they see as sciencereligious-the over reverential attitude. While opponents of scientism argue that science is not the
only valid form of intellectual endeavor, and no the uniquely privilege route to knowledge. The
opponents aim is not to attack science but to put it in place. To show that science is simply one
among the equals and to free other disciplines from the tyranny that science supposedly exerts
over them.
Science and religion is old and well documented. Galileos clash with the Catholic
Church was one of the best example. The church objected to the Copernican theory which
Galileo believed because in contravened the Holy Scriptures. Other scientist like Darwin against
the theory of creationism.
Everybody agree that scientific knowledge has been used for unethical ends. Science is
covered with facts, and facts in themselves have no ethical significance. It is what we do with
those facts that is right or wrong, moral or immoral. Science is essentially a value-free activity.
Scientific enquiry is invariably laden with value judgements.
It is inevitable that an enterprise such as science, which occupies so pivotal a role in
modern society and commands so much public money, should find itself subject to criticism
from a variety of source. It is also good thing, for uncritical acceptance of everything that
scientist say and do would be both unhealthy and dogmatic. It is safe to predict that science in

Telephone No. 317 1768 loc 744

PNU CGSTER Science Education Specialization Management of Science Program

PHILIPPINE NORMAL UNIVERSITY

The National Center for Teacher Education
College of Graduate Studies and Teacher Education Research
Science Education Specialization

the 21st century through its technological applications, will impact on everyday life to an even
greater extent that it has already.
To answer the questions, is science a good thing? It will surely divide us to which value
judgement we would consider. Science is value free until you find its purpose. Also inevitable
that science always brought good and bad effect to the society. Like technology has its own
function and purpose. It is our task to consider those purpose and its function as useful or not
helpful at all. Science is awesome and helpful in our daily lives.

Telephone No. 317 1768 loc 744

PNU CGSTER Science Education Specialization Management of Science Program