So how do scientists gain knowledge, if not by using the scientific method?pic.twitter.com/KaSVdLklhh
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So the question is “How actually do scientists gain knowledge, once we admit that there is no concise a priori answer? And how can we find that out?”
One obvious approach is to ask them “how did you determine this specific fact yesterday,” and then they launch into a story about chromatography columns and ethidium bromide or whatever.
ah, I see. it does seem trivial -- it's not a real method like a protocol
Yes! So if we want to know how scientists actually know things, we need to get into the grubby details of what they do and how and why that works.
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