Comment on What are the strengths of the scientific method? What are its weaknesses?

boyi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is totally false in practice.

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  • boyi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How is this incorrect? In which field? And how do confirm you the validity of your methodology?

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    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Replication rarely happens and in many cases is outright impossible due to lack of shared code.

      Things should be replicable, but that hasn’t been the case for a while.

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      • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        So then the failure of the scientific method is that people aren’t following it. That’s not so much a problem with the method.

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      • boyi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        the correct term you need is ‘unachievable’, not ‘false’.

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