REQUIRED MATERIALS attached is the chapter2 Beth Shook, Katie Nelson, Kelsie Agu

REQUIRED MATERIALS
attached is the chapter2
Beth Shook, Katie Nelson, Kelsie Aguilera, and Lara Braff, Eds. (2021) Explorations: An Open Invitation to Biological Anthropology, 1st ed. American Anthropological Association.
ISBN (ebook) – 978-1-931303-62-0; ISBN (print) – 978-1-931303-63-7
This textbook is freely available as an eBook at: https://pressbooks-dev.oer.hawaii.edu/explorationsbioanth/
PDFs of individual chapters from Explorations are available in the Reading Assignments section of each module.
lease answer the following prompt in this Discussion Forum. Then, comment on 2 of your fellow students’ replies. Your initial comment is due by the due date. Your replies to other students are due 24 hours later.
Find an article in the news about any of the following:
Climate Change
Evolution vs Creationism
UFOs or Aliens
Flat Earth, Hollow Earth, or Geocentrism
Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster, or other Cryptids
The Bermuda Triangle, cattle mutilations or other mysterious phenomena
Ghosts, demons, witches, or other supernatural phenomena
Using your Scientific Method Toolkit and Checklist Handout Download Scientific Method Toolkit and Checklist Handoutas a guide, answer the following questions (If you haven’t already review the lectures on “What is Science” and “Science and Pseudoscience” ).
What is the article about?
Is the article published in a reliable source? (Not sure how to tell? Check out this resource on evaluating websites (Links to an external site.) )
Who is the intended audience?
Are the views of the scientific community accurately reflected? If yes or no, how do you know that? If you’re not sure, how could you find out?
Is there a real scientific controversy presented or is it exaggerated? If yes or no, how do you know that? If you’re not sure, how could you find out?
How confident are scientists in the ideas and evidence presented? If you’re not sure, how could you find out?
Would you say that you could trust this article to be scientifically accurate?