{"id":161301,"date":"2023-03-30T12:23:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T17:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/scientific-literacy-and-its-importance"},"modified":"2023-03-30T12:23:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T17:23:08","slug":"scientific-literacy-and-its-importance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/scientific-literacy-and-its-importance","title":{"rendered":"Scientific Literacy and Its Importance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientific-literacy-and-its-importance.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientific literacy is based on the understanding that science is an ongoing human endeavor. It is a powerful instrument to understand the natural world and provides tools to augment scientific knowledge. It is the means by which a person can inquire, involve, discover, and draw meaningful inferences. A scientifically literate citizen is capable of evaluating different points of view based on appropriate evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wondrium.com\/the-joy-of-science?utm_source=US_TGCDaily&utm_medium=TGCDaily&utm_campaign=145245\">the scientific method<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Every day, there are newspaper stories related to pharmaceuticals, energy needs, and the environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific literacy is based on the understanding that science is an ongoing human endeavor. It is a powerful instrument to understand the natural world and provides tools to augment scientific knowledge. It is the means by which a person can inquire, involve, discover, and draw meaningful inferences. A scientifically literate citizen is capable of evaluating [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}