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The document discusses several key points from Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson regarding science, technology, and society: 1) Knowledge itself is neutral - it is how people apply knowledge that can have positive or negative impacts. 2) While discoveries like the atomic bomb enabled new technologies, the intentions and actions of individuals, not the discoveries themselves, determine their effects. 3) People distrust science often due to a lack of understanding of what science can or cannot do rather than the capabilities of science itself. Effective communication is needed to address misunderstandings.

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The document discusses several key points from Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson regarding science, technology, and society: 1) Knowledge itself is neutral - it is how people apply knowledge that can have positive or negative impacts. 2) While discoveries like the atomic bomb enabled new technologies, the intentions and actions of individuals, not the discoveries themselves, determine their effects. 3) People distrust science often due to a lack of understanding of what science can or cannot do rather than the capabilities of science itself. Effective communication is needed to address misunderstandings.

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SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY
MODULE 2: PERCEPTIONS ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY A

"Knowledge is always a good thing because it empowers


you to react and to do something if there is something
that has to be done."
- Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson B

If a person accepts college students


knowledge for what it is, -they will be able to C
then he or she can use that apply what knowledge they
knowledge for the common have acquired in their
good. According to the book life.
written by Yuval Harari, the It will help them to
real test of knowledge is become more aware of
not whether it is true, but their surroundings despite
whether if it empowers us the odds of what they may D
to act. Because in reality, face. All the choices that
not knowing anything does they make will be
not change anything, it will influenced by the
only make the person knowledge that is able to
hold.
vulnerable.

Even if an individual is unaware of what might


come, given the knowledge that they have, they can
still choose how they will handle the outcome.
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY

"What about Oppenheimer's invention of the bomb,


should it not have been discovered?
- Stephen Colbert
B

Dr. Tyson emphasized that the people behind the


invention of the bomb is an individual who pays whose
intentions is either bad or good. C
The discovery of the bomb itself does not pose a
negative implication to the discovered knowledge
because knowledge is a concept of inertness. What a
person does with the knowledge that they obtain does
not say something about the knowledge itself. It says
something about the action that was committed by the D
person.
Furthermore, in an article on the history of
yesterday, a question stated that "What if the atomic
bomb was never invented?" It explained that the war
would have last longer if the bombs were not invented
because it was used as an offensive weapon to make
the enemies surrender.
In the end, the use of science played a major role
in the country's defenses as well as the use of
technological advances to protect the nation.

(this question poses the


different sides of having
the power to acquire
knowledge)
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY

"The core of distrust in Science is not because of


what it can do, but because of the absence of an
understanding of what it can actually do."
- Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson

emotion
(noun)
emo-tion | /i-'mo-shen/ C
: a conscious mental reaction, such as anger or fear,
subjectively experienced as strong feeling usually
directed toward a specific object and typically
accompanied by physiological and behavioral changes in
the body. D
Emotions affect everything that we do. A 2015 study
in the Annals of American Academy of Political and
Social Science points out that when something is
politicized, we react emotionally, and stick to the
status quo. Political opinions and ideologies are part
of those emotions.
People are afraid of science because of its lack of
knowledge or misunderstanding of its influence on
society. The process of learning science is hard
intellectual work, and the fact is that most individuals
are not likely to invest time and effort to gain
further knowledge that is not very interesting or
useful to them.
People do not believe in science because it requires
a person to think, evaluate, and re-evaluate, which is
a demanding thing to do.
At times science does feel unnatural, it asks us to
question, be skeptical, and debate as objectively as
possible, all things we do not naturally do well. It's
a skill we can learn if cultivated and encouraged.
All in all, if a person or a group wants to convince
people through science, they must appeal to their
curiosity about a certain idea rather than their
emotion.

For example, there is a


scientific consensus based on
voluminous evidence that
global warming is caused by
human activity, but many
people reject this consensus.
Finding ways for science
to communicate more
effectively with the public on
such issues is an urgent
priority.
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY

"People have a misconception that projects for


scientific discoveries are "acts for burning taxes'" but
people do not get it. If they continue thinking this
way, that is the beginning of the end of their
culture."
- Stephen Colbert

According to UNESCO (2018), science is the


greatest collective endeavor. It has been a
debate why the government goes to the extent of
funding scientific researches even though there
are no apparent or practical issues that might
benefit the public. In fact, scientific discovery
has the potential to change the world. D

Over the past few years, humanity has been evolving


at a pace that few could have perceived, fueled by
technological advancement along with great economic
and societal progress.
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY

Culture provides a platform and shared values that


bring people together.
With science, the community is able to develop tools
and products in order to improve life in that certain
community
People should be aware of the contribution of
science in order for them to appreciate what it has to
offer to society. If the community stops its venture
to advancement, the place will remain constant and
will not be able to develop its potential.
This includes the people's ideas and the possibility
to provide scientific implications to their societal
problems.
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY

Reference/s:

- Harari, Y.N. (2014). Sapiens: A Brief History of


Humankind. Random House.
- Piper, G. (2020, November 5). What If The Atomic Bomb
Was Never Invented? - History of Yesterday.
Medium. https://historyofyesterday.com/what-if
the-atomic-bomb-was-never-invented-78b494d1e6d5
- Science for Society. (2018, August 10). UNESCO.
https://en.unesco.org/themes/science-society
- Why the world needs to embrace science. (2015, December
16). World Economic Forum.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/12/why-the
world-needs-to-embrace-science/
- Blank, J.M., & Shaw, D. (2015). Does partisanship shape
attitudes toward science and public policy? The
case for ideology and religion. The ANNALS of the
American Academy of Political and Social Science,
658 (1), 18-35.
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