It’s probably best to get the bad news out of the way first. The so-called scientific method is a myth. That is not to say that scientists don’t do things that can be described and are unique to their ...

A new book suggests that traditional notions about “the scientific method” are flawed and misleading, as Robert P Crease discovers Messy business Science is less of a rigid process and more like a ...

THESE lectures formed part of a course on scientific method delivered at the University Extension summer meeting at Oxford last August. The discourses are intended to illustrate the forms taken by ...

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