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societal issues which call-upon upon scientific expertise, but cannot be decided purely as scientific question
"…increasingly school science encompasses socio-scientific issues (Zeidler, 2014), where science interacts with the wider society. There are many important matters of public policy, of global, international, or just local concern, where scientific knowledge is needed to inform decision-making, but where, of itself, science is insufficient to reach a judgement." (Taber, 2020)
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