Posted on 01/25/2014 4:49:39 AM PST by Kaslin
The scientific method is so trivially obvious that it’s barely worth talking about. The interesting part of science happens well downstream of the scientific method, or upstream depending on how you want to look at it. I would guess that 99% of passionate scientific disputes are between scientists for whom the scientific method is a given.
Yup, but they aren’t, especially not in the social and behavioral sciences. You also didn’t see physics papers about the Higgs boson *not* having one of the predicted masses on the basis of no observations consistent with a Higgs at the appropriate energy after tens of thousands of hours of accelerator time.
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