• Question: Have you ever discovered anything unusual or unscientific?

    Asked by arusa to Ben, Clare, Ezzy, Mario, Sam on 13 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Sam Vinko

      Sam Vinko answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      Anything you discover is scientific! Something can only really be unscientific there is no way to disprove it. If you say or state something which can be proved wrong (or right) then that tells us something new about the world around us and is therefore scientific.

    • Photo: Ben Smart

      Ben Smart answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      Unusual yes, unscientific no. If you discover something then you’ve used science (whether you realised it or not) to discover that thing. If you didn’t use scientific methods (observation, reasoning etc.) to discover it, then you haven’t discovered anything!

    • Photo: Clare Burrage

      Clare Burrage answered on 17 Mar 2012:

      We’ve discovered lots of unusual or unexpected things about our universe, and many of them we still don;t have a good explanation for. But that doesn’t mean it’s unscientific, if you’ve done an experiment and found something out then that’s science even if you can’t explain what’s happening.

    • Photo: Elizabeth Pearson

      Elizabeth Pearson answered on 19 Mar 2012:

      No. Everything has a scientific explanation. It’s just not always obvious.

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