Then how do you reconcile it with:surreptitious57 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 22, 2018 12:59 pm All this is perfectly acceptable and is actually how every scientist should think and act when it comes to testing any hypothesis
Some would say that there no such thing as "THE scientific method" there are MANY methods. Many tools. I would agree with them...surreptitious57 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 22, 2018 11:16 am Your behaviour outside of the rigorous application of the scientific method is therefore of zero importance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construct ... istemology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemological_anarchismAccording to constructivists there is no single valid methodology in science, but rather a diversity of useful methods
Epistemological anarchism is an epistemological theory advanced by Austrian philosopher of science Paul Feyerabend which holds that there are no useful and exception-free methodological rules governing the progress of science or the growth of knowledge. It holds that the idea of the operation of science by fixed, universal rules is unrealistic, pernicious, and detrimental to science itself