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[–] venoft 68 points 5 months ago (26 children)

She's wrong though, everything following the scientific method is science. The fact that you didn't pay out of your ass to publicize your research doesn't matter. Of course it reaches less people, but that's a separate issue.

[+] [email protected] -49 points 5 months ago (4 children)

There's no such thing as a scientific method

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The scientific method varies from field to field. In medicine you usually need to proof it by taking a significant amount people. Then create a control group and a testing group. Then test your medicine on the group and give the other placebos.

When you can measure health improvement for one group over the other there is a reasonable amount of proof that the medicine works.

The scientific method has one major goal. Reduce human made errors in science. Humans do not work objectively. Humans always have an bias. Things like reproduceable tests and peer review try to reduce the bias.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago

Take 10 labs and you'll get 10 definitions of the scientific method. It's just a tradition that yields some results.

peer review try to reduce the bias.

Sounds like you haven't been peer reviewed enough

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