Re:Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone
by nxzero on Friday April 29, 2016 @05:36PM
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This is not how science works, that is just paying attention to results that back your hypothesis or biases; in fact, doing this is not science at all.
EDIT: An example of this in the wild is how drug companies would cherry pick research to back the outcome the wanted; cherry picking is an anti-pattern of true science.
Re:Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone
by chris_wot on Saturday April 30, 2016 @03:59AM
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Happens to the best of us. My editing issues is Apple's autocorrect, I get some truly strange results sometimes.
That makes sense - though I hope you don't mind me asking but when you say "I also know what isn't currently scientific", do you mean untested hypotheses?
Re:Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone
by maaku on Friday April 29, 2016 @05:26PM
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Everything is "scientific" so long as it is subjected to unbiased skeptical experimental evaluation. That's all it means to be "scientific."
Re:Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone
by bigfudge on Saturday April 30, 2016 @04:54PM
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Science needn't mean experiments. Just ask astronomers.
Re:Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone
by MacsHeadroom on Sunday May 01, 2016 @10:38AM
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Hypothesizing then observing or reviewing past observations to verify the hypothesis is a form of experimentation. Every revelation of astronomy has been the result of experiments.
I'm all for scientific method, be it showing positive, negative, or no results. I also know what isn't currently scientific, although I do have curiosity if some of those 'things' can indeed be proved.