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To: muawiyah
"Spunkets, the "scientific method" is a doctrine."

No, it is what I said.

"If you were to change it to include "even falsified data may be used to substantiate desirable findings", you would be subject to sanction."

As I said, it involves logical operations and physical data. data can not be falsified. Data is fact. Findings, as the meaning is considered here, are conclusions, which must be the result of logical operations. Although one generally starts out with a hypothesis, no desire, no matter how hard one squints and tapps their heels together, will produce data that will support the faulty reasoning of a bad hypothesis.

67 posted on 02/24/2009 8:39:26 PM PST by spunkets
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To: spunkets
Even Gregoire Mandel "adjusted his data" ~ with the consequence he failed to notice the phenomena of "jumping genes" that another researcher got a Nobel for decades later.

Yes, data can be fudged, and folks do it all the time. However, that's contrary to the method (or doctrine).

68 posted on 02/24/2009 8:47:29 PM PST by muawiyah
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