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horrorfan [7]
4 years ago
15

A scientist agrees with the scientific consensus that dinosaurs have scaly skin. Then he discovers a new fossil that indicates a

dinosaur had feathers. The scientist refuses to consider the new evidence because it does not agree with the accepted ideas. The scientist is
Biology
2 answers:
omeli [17]4 years ago
6 0
The scientist who refuses to consider new evidence, assuming he or she is not biased or incompetent could do it because if there is a big amount of evidence indicating otherwise, this one new piece of evidence is unlikely and they prefer to wait for more evidence or for analysis of whether this current evidence is not false.

thus this scientist is being skeptical (practicing skepticism) by ignoring this new evidence.
inna [77]4 years ago
6 0

Skepticism is based off of invalid data or an experimental error, but in this case the scientist is being biased.

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