Scientific Method

Susan Haack's critique of Richard Rorty, part 4

Edit The Examiner 05 Jun 2016

Indeed, he disapprovingly refers to this as the “seminary” philosophy of theologians rather than to the “laboratory” philosophy of philosophers who adopt what he considers a scientific attitude ... Thus, for Peirce, the scientific method of philosophy was meant to be directed at what he considered “sham reasoners.” However, these are not his only targets....

Susan Haack's critique of Richard Rorty, part 3

Edit The Examiner 05 Jun 2016

Instead, he wanted to make philosophy scientific itself, “And this means not only that it should use the method of science, but also, even more importantly, that it should be undertaken with “the scientific attitude.” Haack warns against misinterpretations of what Peirce means by this, however.. “”Scientific,” here, needs careful handling; neither ......

Susan Haack on the use of terminology in academia

Edit The Examiner 05 Jun 2016

protos,” meaning “first” – entered the scientific vocabulary ... Instead, he simply believed that there was a kind of "scientific attitude" that one ought to adopt and that one should use "the scientific method." It ought to be kept in mind, however, that Peirce was not holding to a conception of the scientific method according to which it is some sort of fixed or highly formalized inductive logic....

Countering Pro-GMO Deceptions in the British Press

Edit CounterPunch 03 Jun 2016

The report also shows how it routinely arrives at watered-down scientific conclusions based on industry science ... GMWatch states that this is an unscientific statement of a type often used to significant differences found in GM-fed animals compared with the non-GM-fed controls and goes on to highlight how pro-GM scientists make “a nonsense of the scientific method” and to come up with conclusions designed to mislead....

Bill Gates says these are the two books we should all read to understand AI

Edit Quartz 03 Jun 2016

The tech world’s book-nerd-in-chief wants you to add two books to your list of summer science reads ... “Certainly it’s the most exciting thing going on,” he said of artificial intelligence ... Domingos’s book, released last year by Basic Books, is an introduction to machine learning—”the scientific method on steroids”—and how it relates to everyday life ... He writes ... ....

Study on medical error as third cause of US deaths criticized as 'precarious'

Edit The Guardian 03 Jun 2016

Two researchers challenged ‘characterization of medical care as more dangerous’ than guns or cars and provided numbers that were 10% of original findings. @holpuch ... The response authors said they could agree with the analysis authors on one point. “They say that ‘sound scientific methods, beginning with an assessment of the problem, are critical to approaching any health threat to patients’,” the researchers said ... ....

Elon Musk thinks we all live in a video game. So what if we do?

Edit Vox 03 Jun 2016

If the answer cannot matter, the question must be meaningless. I have a love/hate relationship with the sort of thought experiments that Ezra Klein describes Elon Musk indulging in at the recent Recode Code conference ... Still, what boss man wants, boss man gets ... This is the debate America needs ... All right then ... But once you abandon religion — once you trade authority for empiricism and the scientific method — you also abandon certainty ... ....

We've got tapeworms, scabies, and reproducible research

Edit Science Daily 02 Jun 2016

Two new research papers on scabies and tapeworms include a collaboration with protocols. This collaboration showcases a new way to share scientific methods that allows scientists to better repeat and build on these complicated studies on difficult-to-study parasites. It also highlights a new means of writing all research papers with citable methods that can be updated over time, keeping work clear, consistent, and current ... ....

Lying in State

Edit The American Spectator 02 Jun 2016

The OIG (short for oi gevalt) of the Department of State has issued a report to the effect that Hillary Clinton, like Cleopatra and others who surrounded themselves with snakes, has a big asp problem. What else is new? ... Yet they loyally read on, in thickness and in stealth ... The conclusion was strikingly similar to the one your mother advocated on her kitchen soapbox, without the scientific method and the research fellowship ... How late ... ....

PhosAgro CEO takes up post as President of Russian Association of Fertiliser Producers, re-elected as IFA Vice President Eastern Europe & Central Asia (OAO PhosAgro)

Edit Public Technologies 02 Jun 2016

(Source. OAO PhosAgro). Moscow - PhosAgro (Moscow Exchange, LSE ... The RAFP supports the development of the whole of Russian agriculture, which is a priority market for its products,' Andrey Guryev said ... 'In my position as IFA Vice President I will focus on sustainable growth of crop yields and reduction of environmental impact through the use of high-quality, ecologically friendly fertilisers and scientific methods of application.'....

Federalizing the National Guard: Preparedness, reserve forces and the National Defense Act of 1916 (The National Guard)

Edit Public Technologies 02 Jun 2016

(Source. The National Guard). By Bill Boehm . National Guard Bureau . June 02, 2016. ARLINGTON, Va. - June 3 marks the 100th anniversary of the National Defense Act of 1916, a defining moment in the history of the National Guard ... Isolated nation ... Lusitania off the coast of Ireland ... It also established the National Research Council, which spearheaded the employment of scientific methods to aid in the common defense of the United States ... (noodl....

Bringing Rigor Back to Science: SciCrunch Supports New NIH Requirements for Biological Citations (UCSD - University of California - San Diego)

Edit Public Technologies 02 Jun 2016

Consistency and accuracy in scientific citation is a hallmark of the scientific method, but Bandrowski argues that a grandmother writing down a recipe for snickerdoodles is more apt to provide a detailed description of the ingredients she uses than is the typical scientist citing biological reagents ... We should be able to do the same for the scientific literature.' ... I think the methods are now coming back to the center of science.'....

It shouldn’t be so hard to carry out research in social care

Edit The Guardian 01 Jun 2016

But in a profession where quality of life is our purpose for being, maintaining scientific rigour is no mean feat ... In order to get the job done properly, our research OT has had to undertake a Master’s of Research to ensure the scientific method is rigorously followed ... They have stated, then re-stated, then re-re-stated their project, methods and back-up plans....

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