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| peer review | scientists in the same field carefully check other scientists' work for errors in experimental design, analysis, or interpretation; a way of making sure that work published in scientific journals follows scientific method |
| theory | an idea that started out as a hypothesis, but that become more and more strongly supported as many other scientists replicated experiments in the same & different ways |
| ethics | a judment as to whether something is right or wrong relative to a moral code |
| environmental ethics | a person's moral value system regarding the treatment of the environment |
| anthropocentric world view | a belief that human needs and well-being are always more important than protecting other parts of the environment |
| ecocentric world view | an environmental value system in which a person values the longterm protection of the environment more than immediate human needs |
| replication | to redo an experiment the same way to see if the results are the same |
| scientific method | set of steps needed to ensure an objective, well controlled experiment and sharing of scientifcally valid results between scientists |
| primary scientific journal | peer reviewed publication in which scientists share their results with each other |
| hypothesis | the idea tested in one experiment |
