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ianmiller42 · 1 year ago
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The Role of Consensus in Scientific Debate
In my last post, it was stated that Peter Vickers asserted that there had never been 95% consensus before and been found to be wrong.  We have to be a wee bit careful in refuting that. For example Newtonian mechanics and Galilean relativity was held to be correct for a very long time, but the fact was that those who believed it only operated in regions where it was effectively true, so we cannot…
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ianmiller42 · 3 years ago
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My Introduction to the Scientific Method - as actually practised
My Introduction to the Scientific Method – as actually practised
It is often said if you can’t explain something to a six-year-old, you don’t understand. I am not convinced, but maybe I don’t understand. Anyway, I thought I would follow from my previous post with an account of my PhD thesis. It started dramatically. My young supervisor gave me a choice of projects but only one looked sensible. I started that, then found the answer just published. Fortunately,…
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