Название: The Scientific Method: A Guide to Finding Useful KnowledgeАвтор: J. Scott Armstrong, Kesten C. Green
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 2022
Страниц: 242
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 10.2 MB
The scientific method delivers prosperity, yet scientific practice has become subject to corrupting influences from within and without the scientific community. This essential reference is intended to help remedy those threats. The authors identify eight essential criteria for the practice of science and provide checklists to help avoid costly failures in scientific practice. Not only for scientists, this book is for all stakeholders of the broad enterprise of science.
Science administrators, research funders, journal editors, and policymakers alike will find practical guidance on how they can encourage scientific research that produces useful discoveries. Journalists, commentators, and lawyers can turn to this text for help with assessing the validity and usefulness of scientific claims. The book provides practical guidance and makes important recommendations for reforms in science policy and science administration. The message of the book is complemented by Nobel Laureate Vernon L. Smith's foreword, and an afterword by Terence Kealey.
The scientific method is largely responsible for improving life expectancies and the quality of life over the past 2000 years. Individual scientists, in their efforts to discover how things work and how to make them better have used the method on their own or in collaboration with others to make the world a better place. We believe that there is no way to improve upon the scientific method. Our aim for this book, then, is to help improve scientific practice. The message of our book is a positive one. The scientific method has worked and does continue to work, to the great benefit of all of us. While there are considerable problems with the current practice of science in many fields – which we describe at some length – we provide a plan for overcoming those problems.
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