The Scientific Method

jwundubbed

Sometimes the minimalist approach makes everything clearer and easy to understand. In this case the result is the opposite. I don't really get it.

days of future passed

I think it is about having an idea that makes you happy but it's not science. So it's a no.

cofty

Scientist thinking
Scientist has exciting idea
Data says idea is bollocks
Scientist sad

MrRoboto

Very nice, too bad the state of science today leaves alot to be desired, what with all their plagiarism, corporate interests, government interests and self interest/ego.

As Max Planck said "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it"

scratchme1010

I still believe in science. What you are describing is not the scientific method; it's what people do with it. Don't blame science.

Giles Gray

Cofty:- " Scientist thinking

Scientist has exciting idea

Data says idea is bollocks

Scientist sad"

Theist thinking

Theist has exciting idea

Data says idea is bollocks

Theist believes regardless

captaingrl

this may be how it used to be, but the problem with much that pass for "science" these days is they will endlessly tweak their idea so as to fit any kind of data. See social science.

MrRoboto

Or data, to fit any kind of idea.

Hey Giles, does that mean his idea was science... fiction?

Speaking of science, I've got one for you:

I before E except after C

jwundubbed

Science is like technology. It is usually the human factor that gets it wrong or keeps it from working.

The Scientific Method

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