Guidelines and Science
Identify:
The most difficult part of writing a white paper that I have found is trying to find a case study that not only proves your point, but emphasizes your point.
Explain:
Writing a white paper can be difficult. There are many aspects of the writing process that can be difficult to understand. The only way a person can accurately describe and inform the reader of two views while inserting their own input is to fully understand the argument they are making and the context that they are referring to.
When trying to find a case study, one of the most difficult aspects of writing a white paper is to find an accurate and reliable source to obtain the study from. If the case study that you are basing your entire paper on is invalid, unreliable, or extremely biased, that contains and potentially ruins the whole paper.
I chose, for my white paper, to compare the differences between zoos and circuses. The point I’m trying to establish relies on my thesis; science when placed under guidelines generates reliable data that helps to make needed advancements. In comparing zoos and circuses, this thesis is proved correct. While both zoos and circuses arose at the same time and for similar reasons, the path each chose is significantly different. Zoos, while under guidelines, seek to educate communities and stabilize wildlife populations that are becoming endangered. Circuses have no guidelines, held to no authority, so the way they go about entertaining and treating the animals is a digressive track. Without guidelines on animal treatment, circuses do as they see fit to reach the greatest profit.
While I understand that not all zoos are good, and not all circuses are bad, I maintain and enforce the idea that guidelines hide science and keep it honest. As seen above, without these guidelines’ science can roam free without restrictions. The policies that keep science reliable are not present in a biased and self-seeking scientist’s mind that can participate in a free play society.
Question:
If science relies strictly on guidelines, is it possible to reach goals that contain little to no bias? Is it possible to ask that science limits biases? Is science run by subjective human beings, even capable of obtaining objective results?
