Kostas Kampourakis and Kevin McCain Uncertainty. How It Makes Science Advance

摘要

In my work with science communication students, both those with professional writing goals and those in training to become scholars, I have always urged them to think of science not just as an uncertainty-reducing process but also as an uncertainty-generating one. All well and good. But this slim text has convinced me that, in doing so, I achieved only half of my educational responsibility. Accepting the ubiquity of uncertainty in science is a start, but learning how to not let uncertainty get in the way of understanding is the critical next step. This book emphasises that latter goal in a way that can inform both students and their instructors.