Scientific community — The scientific community consists of the total body of scientists, its relationships and interactions. It is normally divided into sub communities each working on a particular field within science. Objectivity is expected to be achieved by the… … Wikipedia
Scientific community — Die Wissenschaftsgemeinde (engl. Scientific community) ist die Gesamtheit aller am internationalen Wissenschaftsbetrieb teilnehmenden Wissenschaftler. Der Lateinische Begriff res publica literaria wurde bis in das 18. Jahrhundert hinein verwendet … Deutsch Wikipedia
Scientific community metaphor — In computer science, the Scientific Community Metaphor is one way of understanding scientific communities. The first publications on the Scientific Community Metaphor (Bill Kornfeld and Carl Hewitt 1981, Kornfeld 1981, Kornfeld 1982) involved the … Wikipedia
Scientific consensus — is the collective judgement, position, and opinion of the community of scientists in a particular field of science at a particular time. Scientific consensus is not, by itself, a scientific argument, and is not part of the scientific method;… … Wikipedia
Scientific data archiving — refers to the long term storage of scientific data and methods. The various scientific journals have differing policies regarding how much of their data and methods scientists are required to store in a public archive, and what is actually… … Wikipedia
Scientific racism — denotes the use of scientific, or ostensibly scientific, findings and methods to support or validate racist attitudes and worldviews. It is based on belief in the existence and significance of racial categories, but extends this into a hierarchy… … Wikipedia
Scientific imperialism — is a term that appears to have been coined by Dr Ellis T Powell when addressing the Commonwealth Club of Canada on 8 September 1920. Though he defined imperialism as the sense of arbitrary and capricious domination over the bodies and souls of… … Wikipedia
Scientific Integrity in Policymaking — Scientific Integrity in Policymaking: An Investigation into the Bush Administration s Misuse of Science is the title of a report published by the Union of Concerned Scientists in February, 2004. The report was the culmination of an investigation… … Wikipedia
Scientific formalism — is a broad term for a family of approaches to the presentation of science. It is viewed as an important part of the scientific method, especially in the physical sciences.Levels of formalismThere are multiple levels of scientific formalism… … Wikipedia
community — ► NOUN (pl. communities) 1) a group of people living together in one place. 2) (the community) the people of an area or country considered collectively; society. 3) a group of people with a common religion, race, or profession: the scientific… … English terms dictionary
