Climate Change And Falsification Essay

Climate change is a huge issue for today’s society. Some believe it and others pretend like it doesn’t exist. Current policymakers use science in many important policies and laws put in place today, rather than pseudoscience. Pollution can be linked to climate change which is why policymakers have relied on scientific data in order to regulate and set appropriate amounts of pollution that can be released by factories, etc. The importance of using scientific data and claims is important in this aspect because it allows the factories to know what they can and cannot release into the environment and how much. If pseudoscience was used to make policies and decisions, there would be no real evidence behind the policy and the reasons for the policy or law would be inaccurate. Dating back to the 1930s, Popper became a popular character in philosophy and came up with the thesis of falsification. Falsification means that a statement can be proven false through observation or experimentation. There are many situations in real life where a hypothesis or statement can be falsified. For example, in my Biology 165 Lab course, I made a hypothesis that alcohol would raise the heartrate of the Daphnia. When the experiment was completed, my hypothesis

If a statement can be falsified, it means it can be proven false, which means deductive reasoning is involved. Deductive reasoning is when the premises of a statement are true, so the conclusion must be true. Galileo’s Inclined Plane Experiment created and defined the term of inductive reasoning. Inductive reasoning is when most of the premises are found true most of the time, the conclusion must also be true. One of the most popular inductive reasoning examples is the idea that all swans are white, because that’s all that had been observed in that area, but it turns out there are also black swans, so the reasoning that all swans are white was