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by nairboon 778 days ago
> The objective fact of the matter, as I point out in the first article in the series, is that the scientific method produces vastly more accurate predictions than anything else humans have ever tried.

Which scientific method? As far as i know, there is no such thing as "the scientific method". Though, there are many methods.

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Which ones do you know? I have only heard it referred to in this context, that there is the scientific method: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method
No, there is only one scientific method, which is to say, one method that works better than any other to produce theories with predictive power. I describe it in the inaugural post of the series:

https://blog.rongarret.info/2024/03/a-clean-sheet-introducti...

If you know of a process that works better than the one described that would be Big News.

https://blog.rongarret.info/2024/04/the-scientific-method-pa...