A Classmate Tells You That a Statement Heard on the News

Multiple Choice

A classmate tells you that a statement heard on the news about an environmental process noted in a local ecosystem cannot be true because it has not been scientifically proven. Given what you know about the nature of scientific reasoning, you realize that ____.

A) this classmate is misinformed because science cannot prove anything, but it can disprove events conclusively
B) this classmate is misinformed because science cannot prove or disprove anything absolutely
C) this classmate is misinformed because the environmental process in question actually has been proven scientifically
D) this classmate is correct
E) this classmate has confused scientific theories and scientific laws