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What parts are left out then if you reduce science to the scientific method? The culture around it? Or is there no scientific method as such?
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As in "there are many methods and there is no coherence to them", "no single method could hope to capture all empirically accessible knowledge", and/or in another way? (Is there a longform piece about it? Especially the latter version feels technical to show)
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sidenote, I'm pretty sure there's ethnographies of scientists doing their thing, a friend of mine did pretty much that when she studied an academic supercomputer's administration and crew (iirc it was that)
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Yes, I’ve read some of that literature, and it is fascinating. One good guy in the field is Charles Goodwin; I was reading his stuff just before my mom’s situation went critical
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ahh thanks for the reference! (reason I'm asking all this is that I'm researching/ideacrafting on the magical method as opposed to/complementing the scientific method, and so far it's been magic-heavy)
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