How Good at Problem Solving Are the Army, Navy, and Air Force?
There’s an article in the March-April issue of the Journal of College Science Teaching on “Moving Research into the Classroom” by biology professors from a service academy. In spite of some effort on my part, the Journal of College Science Teaching hasn’t admitted that the scientific method exists. I suspected that the article would not contain anything about the scientific method. Sure enough, it didn’t. This is not entirely the fault of the authors because for many years the leaders in the field of biology have helped perpetuate the false claim that the scientific method doesn’t exist. Thus, teachers and professors have not adequately learned it.
The bad part of all this, I believe, is that the non-teaching of the scientific method prevails in all our service academies as a result of the Blunder. Our country’s safety depends on our protectors being the best problem solvers, yet I don’t think they are adequately taught the complete method of creative problem solving and decision making for all fields because of the Blunder.
I all attention to this specifically in Chapter 42 (Public Safety) of my book.
This is an immense harm of the Blunder, yet no one is helping to try to correct it.
