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Text: Use the term "production of electricity from another form of energy"
Net Benefit – Science Education
A - Their use of the term "energy production" is scientifically inaccurate – energy is actually transformed
Centro Volta 07 "The Energy Way" http://www.centrovolta.it/laviadellenergia/inglese/produzione/index.htm-http://www.centrovolta.it/laviadellenergia/inglese/produzione/index.htm, "How is energy Obtained"

Sometimes, we improperly use the term "energy production" when discussing energy issues
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dedicated to transforming the energy contained in various natural sources into electrical power.

B- Precise scientific knowledge by citizens is critical to an informed debate
Kluger 11 -  senior writer for TIME (Jeffery, " Scientific Illiteracy After the Shuttle: Are America’s Smartest Days Behind Her?" http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2082213,00.html-http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2082213,00.html), 7/11

The problem is, the land of the free and home of the brave is
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again if the U.S. is going to keep its edge.

C - only a scientific approach produces the best epistemology and can avert extinction
Coyne 06 – Author and Writer for the Times (Jerry A., "A plea for empiricism", FOLLIES OF THE WISE, Dissenting essays, 405pp. Emeryville, CA: Shoemaker and Hoard, 1 59376 101 5)

Supernatural forces and events, essential aspects of most religions, play no role in
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politics and religion, we desperately need to heed Crews’s plea for empiricism.