Alternative Bias for Understanding the World? An Analysis of the Perception of Undergraduate Students in Biological Sciences About

Pseudoscience is able to deceive even the most skeptical individuals due to its tactic of mimicking the processes of science, from simulating a methodology and a scientific language, to inducing a rationality. Therefore, considering this trick of pseudoscience, this study aimed to analyze the percep...

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Authors: Damasceno, Matheus Lau; Sedano, Luciana
Format: Article
Status:Published version
Publication date:2024
Country:Brasil
Institution:ABRAPEC
Repository:Revista Brasileira de Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências (Online)
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:periodicos.ufmg.br:article/46907
Online Access:https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/rbpec/article/view/46907
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:scientific negationism
Pseudoscience
pre-service teacher
negacionismo científico
Pseudociência
formação inicial de professores
Pseudociencia
formación inicial
Summary:Pseudoscience is able to deceive even the most skeptical individuals due to its tactic of mimicking the processes of science, from simulating a methodology and a scientific language, to inducing a rationality. Therefore, considering this trick of pseudoscience, this study aimed to analyze the perception of undergraduate students in Biological Sciences about the general characteristics of pseudoscience, since these students are in the process of training and may act to combat the anti-science front. To achieve our goal, we applied a questionnaire of agreement with a Likert-type scale, and its results were analyzed from the average ranking of the answers obtained. In total, 56 undergraduates and 32 undergraduates participated. The results of the research show that students do not differentiate scientific denialism from pseudoscience and remain in a field of neutrality when dealing with the criterion of falsifiability proposed Popper (1959) to characterize the Sciences.

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