Glossary
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Something must be wrong | The belief that the official account must be false, even when specific conspiracy claims are abandoned or contradicted. Science Literacy |
| Special pleading | Applying a rule or standard to others while making an unjustified exception for oneself or one's position. Science Literacy |
| Speciation | The process by which populations evolve into distinct species, often after becoming geographically or reproductively isolated. Evolution |
| Species | A group of organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring. Science General |
| Specificity | The ability of a test to correctly identify those who do not have a condition (the true negative rate). Science General |
| Speech recognition | Technology that converts spoken language into text. Artificial Intelligence |
| Speed of light | The speed at which light travels in a vacuum, exactly 299,792,458 meters per second, the fastest speed possible in the universe. Science General |
| Spike Protein | Spike proteins are large, surface-projecting glycoproteins found on enveloped viruses, notably coronaviruses, which form trimmer structures crucial for host cell attachment and entry. Vaccines |
| Stabilizers | Sugars, amino acids, or gelatin that protect the vaccine from breaking down during storage. Vaccines |
| Standard deviation | A measure of how spread out values are around the mean. A small standard deviation means values are clustered closely together. Science General |