The Scientific Method & Methods for Science
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Sense About ScienceSense About Science is an independent charitable trust. We respond to the misrepresentation of science and scientific evidence on issues that matter to society, from scares about plastic bottles, fluoride and the MMR vaccine to controversies about genetic modification, stem cell research and ...
John Goodwin
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Scientists self-censor after political attack : Nature NewsScientists whose work came under scrutiny during a political debate about work funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, censored their own later work, a new study has found. In July 2003, former congressman Patrick Toomey (Republican, Pennsylvania) argued that ...
Calvin Smith
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NotemakingAcademic success requires various competencies, among them the ability to know and use a variety of tools and techniques to generate and organize information and ideas. I refer to the tools and techniques on this page as "notemaking" because "taking notes" is passive: just as we must make ...
Carlos G
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PLoS Medicine - Why Current Publication Practices May Distort ScienceThe current system of publication in biomedical research provides a distorted view of the reality of scientific data that are generated in the laboratory and clinic. This system can be studied by applying principles from the field of economics. The “winner's curse,” a more general statement of ...
Calvin Smith
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The Economist Has No Clothes - Scientific AmericanThe 19th-century creators of neoclassical economics—the theory that now serves as the basis for coordinating activities in the global market system—are credited with transforming their field into a scientific discipline. But what is not widely known is that these now legendary economists—William ...
Giorgio Bertini
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Edge: THE FOURTH QUADRANT: A MAP OF THE LIMITS OF STATISTICS By Nassim Nicholas TalebSo knowledge (i.e., if some statement is "true" or "false") matters little, very little in many situations. In the real world, there are very few situations where what you do and your belief if some statement is true or false naively map into each other. Some decisions require vastly more ...
dekaysion
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The Long Now Blog » Blog Archive » Nassim Nicholas Taleb, “The Future Has Always Been Crazier Than We Thought”Don’t focus on probability. Focus on consequences. Black Swans will come. Prepare against the negative ones; be ready to soar with the positive ones. Pay attentive heed to tradition and old people— they have experienced more Black Swans.
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Why science is like this, not that - On The Road - Andrew Sun's blog on Nature Network"If a person creates a huge theory which unfortunately is not science, he/she cannot help it by defining a new science or by seeking supports from eastern philosophy before we agree with him/her and re-examine all the old science in the new way"
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Collective Cognitive Responsibility for the Advancement of KnowledgeIf there is any consensus about what education in a knowledge society should be like, it is to be found in a cluster of terms that pervade the oral and printed discourse on this issue: lifelong learning, flexibility, creativity, higher-order thinking skills, collaboration, distributed expertise, ...
Giorgio Bertini
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Knowledge BuildingIn what is coming to be called the “ knowledge age,” the health and wealth of societies depends increasingly on their capacity to innovate. People in general, not just a specialized elite, need to work creatively with knowledge. As Peter Drucker put it “Innovation must be part and parcel of ...
Giorgio Bertini
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