The Scientific Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth
CRC Press (Verlag)
978-1-032-52139-8 (ISBN)
There is a limited understanding amongst scientists, students, and the public about realizing trust in scientific findings. This should be a paramount objective. Scientists and the public need to know more about the link between the philosophy of science and science research methods. There is a limited understanding of why accuracy is important and that it is not the same as precision. Also, there is often the need to be pragmatic and so measure an approximation of a real system, and the classic case is reductionism in biology versus whole organism biology. The author brings these topics together in terms of trusting in science.
Features
Covers how scientific truth is perceived and increases the preparedness of early career scientists.
Examines the relatively new field of machine learning and artificial intelligence as applied to crystallography databases in biology and chemistry for new discoveries.
Describes the major changes in digital data archiving and how vast “raw data” archives are being increasingly developed for machine learning and artificial intelligence as well as complete truth.
This unique volume will be of interest to pre-university and university undergraduate students, principally in science.
Presents scientific research examples from physics, chemistry, and biology together with their methodologies.
John R Helliwell, DSc (Physics, University of York), DPhil (Molecular Biophysics, Oxford University), is Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at The University of Manchester, where he served as Professor of Structural Chemistry from 1989 to 2012. Academic teaching from 1979 to 1988 was at the Universities of Keele and York in the physics departments there. He is a researcher in the fields of crystallography, biophysics, structural biology, structural chemistry, and data science. He was also based at the Synchrotron Radiation Source at the UK’s Daresbury Laboratory in various periods of appointment between 1979 to 2008, including in 2002 as Director of Synchrotron Radiation Science. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Royal Society of Biology, and the American Crystallographic Association, and an Honorary Member of the British Crystallographic Association and of the British Biophysical Society. He is a Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona, Spain, and an Honorary Member of the National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia. His awards include the European Crystallographic Association Eighth Max Perutz Prize 2015, the American Crystallographic Association Patterson Award 2014, and the “Professor K Banerjee Endowment Lecture Silver Medal” of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS) 2001. He has published over 200 scientific research papers and several books, e.g., Macromolecular Crystallography with Synchrotron Radiation with Cambridge University Press (1992), published in paperback in 2005, and Macromolecular Crystallization and Crystal Perfection with N E Chayen and E H Snell), Oxford University Press, International Union of Crystallography Monographs on Crystallography (2010). He has published several Scientific Life, popular science, books in recent years, which are with CRC Press, Taylor & Francis. He has served in roles of major responsibility such as President of the European Crystallographic Association (2007–2010), Chairman of the International Union of Crystallography’s (IUCr) Commission on Journals (1996–2005), and Chairman of the IUCr Diffraction Data Deposition Working Group (2011–2017) and its Committee on Data (2017–2023) as well as its Representative to the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI; 2005–2014) and the International Council of Science’s Committee on Data “CODATA” (2012–2023). In the past thirty years, he has chaired several international advisory committees for synchrotron, and more recently, neutron, facilities’ development and their users’ science. He was Leader of the UK Delegation at the International Union of Pure and Applied Biophysics Congress and General Assembly in New Delhi, India, in 1999, and was Leader of the UK Delegation at the International Union of Crystallography Congress and General Assembly in Prague in 2021. Scientists, in their career development, seek guidance. He has been a senior mentor at the University of Manchester, both in the Department of Chemistry and in its Manchester Gold scheme, as well as a director in the scientific civil service, as mentioned above. He has had interests in the philosophy of science for a long time. So much so that he has written quite a number of book reviews on the topic in his (semi-)retirement since 2012. He has also reviewed books on how science is communicated and how it is managed for the public good, as well as books on scientific career development. Other books by John R Helliwell in his Scientific Life Series Skills for a Scientific Life The Whys of a Scientific Life The Whats of a Scientific Life The Whens and Wheres of a Scientific Life
Chapter 1 What are the main themes of the philosophy of science in understanding science's efforts to reach truth?
Chapter 2 An atlas of scientists’ subject areas in seeking scientific truth
Chapter 3 Measure the right thing. What is the best probe of the structure of matter? What is the true value? Precision and Accuracy
Chapter 4 Real World Case Studies
Chapter 5 Don’t take my word for it: FAIR and FACTual data
Chapter 6 How science preserves truth; the editor as a gatekeeper of truth
Chapter 7 Post-publication peer review
Chapter 8 The issue and challenge of archiving all data
Chapter 9 Conclusions and Future Outlook
Chapter 10 Envoi
Subject index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 09.04.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 2 Tables, black and white; 9 Line drawings, color; 4 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Halftones, color; 4 Halftones, black and white; 13 Illustrations, color; 8 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 120 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-52139-2 / 1032521392 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-52139-8 / 9781032521398 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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