LeidenForceMar 11

How does science decide what is “validated”?

Peer review, replication, debate… Scientific knowledge is not a fixed truth but a process. This article explores how results are tested, challenged, and sometimes overturned. A useful reminder that doubt is part of science.

🔗 https://www.pourlascience.fr/sr/regards/les-tribulations-de-la-validation-scientifique-28834.php

#Science #Research #PeerReview #Reproducibility #ScientificMethod

John V🏳️‍🌈Mar 7

This was posted about a month ago, but is still good. It is a set of 9 principals based on statements from Carl Sagan dealing with figuring out what is B.S.

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/carl-sagan-detecting-baloney/

#CarlSagan #ScientificMethod #Hypotheses #HypothesesPruning #CombatFakeNews

Carl Sagan's 9 timeless lessons for detecting baloney

Carl Sagan's baloney detection kit taught us how to separate good science from the work of charlatans. In 2026, that matters more than ever.

Big Think
Show threadZajeyFeb 11

Yeah Y'all know what this is.

#Zajey #Science #Research #ScientificMethod #SystemsThinking #Causality #CausalInference #DecisionScience #ComplexityScience #ComplexSystems #NonlinearDynamics #ChaosTheory #Probability #Statistics #Uncertainty #RiskAnalysis #Modeling #Inference
2/2

Front PageJan 30

6th grader's science fair project answers age-old question: 'Do cat buttholes touch everything?'

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/cat-butthole-science-experiment-goes-viral-ex1

Show threadmjJan 26
The #scientific-method that was forming placed more emphasis on replication by peers, through more reliance on mathematization & testable experimentation and demonstration. The field of #Music was no different, but it also had models from a large # of specialists w/1000s of yrs of trial & error.
José - Luis Gutiérrez VillanueJan 26

More than 400 years ago, Johannes Kepler challenged deeply held assumptions about how the universe should work 🌌
By following the data, he transformed astronomy and showed that planets move in ellipses, not perfect circles.

A short video worth watching 👇
https://youtu.be/3tOhNRjIHVc?si=tUXNxEhWRrau6O9X

#Astronomy #HistoryOfScience #ScientificMethod

#ScienceHistory #Curiosity

WIST QuotationsJan 16

A quotation from Claude Bernard

But it happens further quite naturally that men who believe too firmly in their theories, do not believe enough in the theories of others. So the dominant idea of these despisers of their fellows is to find others’ theories faulty and to try to contradict them. […] They make experiments only to destroy a theory, instead of to seek the truth. At the same time, they make poor observations, because they choose among the results of their experiments only what suits their object, neglecting whatever is unrelated to it, and carefully setting aside everything which might tend toward they idea they wish to combat.
 
[Mais il arrive encore tout naturellement que ceux qui croient trop à leurs théories ne croient pas assez à celles des autres. Alors l’idée dominante de ces contempteurs d’autrui est de trouver les théories des autres en défaut et de chercher à les contredire. […] Ils ne font des expériences que pour détruire une théorie, au lieu de les faire pour chercher la vérité. Ils font également de mauvaises observations, parce qu’ils ne prennent dans les résultats de leurs expériences que ce qui convient à leur but, en négligeant ce qui ne s’y rapporte pas, et en écartant bien soigneusement tout ce qui pourrait aller dans le sens de l’idée qu’ils veulent combattre.]

Claude Bernard (1813-1878) French physiologist, scientist
An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine [Introduction à l’Étude de la Médecine Expérimentale], ch. 3 (1865) [tr. Greene (1957)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bernard-claude/81484…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #claudebernard #bias #confirmationbias #disproof #experimentation #hypothesis #proof #science #scientificmethod #theory

Bernard, Claude - An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine [Introduction à l’Étude de la Médecine Expérimentale], ch. 3 (1865) [tr. Greene (1957)] | WIST Quotations

But it happens further quite naturally that men who believe too firmly in their theories, do not believe enough in the theories of others. So the dominant idea of these despisers of their fellows is to find others' theories faulty and to try to contradict them. [...] They make experiments…

WIST Quotations
Wayne RadinskyDec 31

AI transforms scientific discovery: From AlphaFold to Google's AI Co-Scientist.

https://techlife.blog/posts/ai-transforms-scientific-discovery-alphafold-ai-co-scientist/

#solidstatelife #ai #genai #llms #diffusionmodels #alphafold #science #scientificmethod #scienceai

AI Transforms Scientific Discovery: How AlphaFold and AI Co-Scientist Are Reshaping Research

From solving the 50-year protein folding problem to generating research hypotheses in hours, AI tools like AlphaFold and Google's AI Co-Scientist are compressing discovery timelines from years to days

TechLife
broVbro 🇺🇲Dec 25

There is no certainty in science. Today's 'fact' is tomorrow's flat earth.

#CriticalThinking
#science
#ScientificMethod
#logic
#facts

Flipboard Science DeskNov 27

What is the scientific process, from investigation to publication? Mark Louie Ramos, an expert in health policy and administration, explains for @TheConversationUS.

https://flip.it/VjbC2y

#Science #ScientificMethod #Research

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence – and that affects what scientific journals choose to publish

Researchers design studies that might disprove what’s called their null hypothesis – the opposite of the claim they’re interested in exploring.

The Conversation