This post is a review of The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science by Michael Strevens. Most of us believe the "Scientific Method" plays a pivotal role in unlocking the ...

Up till now, to come up with a breakthrough you needed use the scientific method of hypothesis, experimentation and verification, which although effective, is incredibly tedious and costly.

The scientific method isn’t just for nerds in lab coats, nor is it just experimentation, measurement, and math. You use the scientific method every time you try to get realistic about anything ...

This question, or something very similar to it, is always asked when the issue of scientific consensus is raised. Yet, it might surprise the commenter to learn that scientific consensus is real, and ...

If scientific method is only one form of a general method employed in all human inquiry, how is it that the results of science are more reliable than what is provided by these other forms?

The scientific method can’t save us — because it doesn’t exist. Claims on television and Twitter notwithstanding, there is no such thing as “the scientific method,” no single set of ...