Why science?

I believe in science being the best know way to deal with things, find out facts and reporting them, so decision makers can make proper decisions.

I am actually a scientist and I remember the moment I realized what science is actually about. During my study we were given an exercise and me and my companion were pretty confident about how we did this (scientific research) exercise. How wrong we, and I presume  most of our fellow students, were. The exercise was not about the actual thing we were doing. It was about how science actually works or is supposed to work: don’t take anything for granted. And wow, how many things had we taken for granted, how many things did we actually presume without checking them for being a fact.

So that is how I really learned about science and why it works.

Institutions

So science is about, well, universities. And about departments in universities. And about scientists in universities. And this whole system is supposed to create scientific results through scientific research, research about facts. And this research, these facts, need to be of that quality that it can be verified independently. So that’s why peer review is so important in science. As peer review means that supposedly independent researchers check the methods that produced answers. And checks if the answers found were right. And will report if the answers found were different. Until we find the real facts, which is mostly a process. So, no, we will never find the whole truth. But that’s exactly what science is about: find the best answers and keeping checking if the answers are still valid.

Ukraine crisis science

I found the following institution related to Ukraine crisis science:

• Harvard Kennedy School.

COVID-19 Science

I don’t fully trust the WHO as it seems the major international organizations are biased towards the West, but I guess they do have proper links to scientific research results:

• Science conversation COVID-19.