A Classmate Tells You That a Statement Heard on the News

question 88

Multiple Choice

A classmate tells you that a statement heard on the news about an environmental process noted in a local ecosystem cannot be true because it has not been scientifically proven. Given what you know about the nature of scientific reasoning, you realize that ____.

• A) this classmate is misinformed because science cannot prove anything, but it can disprove events conclusively
• B) this classmate is misinformed because science cannot prove or disprove anything absolutely
• C) this classmate is misinformed because the environmental process in question actually has been proven scientifically
• D) this classmate is correct
• E) this classmate has confused scientific theories and scientific laws

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