On May 2, 2013, at 9:54 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote:
Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote:
I think what people are saying: The concept of science works but the
application frequently sucks!
Well, also that the method is not perfect. It works sometimes but not other
Let me clarify my pithy and brief comment. Yes the scientific method
works fine when applied to studies that have no importance to anyone
other than the person doing the study. However, once the subject
becomes important to a larger group, such as global warming or cold
fusion, to give
Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote:
However, once the subject becomes important to a larger group, such as
global warming or cold fusion, to give recent examples, the method is
distorted and does not work.
I would say it does not work as well. It works to some extent. After all,
cold
what you say remind me what I've learned about markets, risk management.
most of the time financial models are right, but you lose all the cash gain
whan it worked when they get suddenly wrong.
one blackswan lost can kill all the benefit of the chicken farm.
2013/5/6 Edmund Storms
it seems we have to re-define some basic concepts
The author (who, if I remember well, has supported the idea of Cold Fusion,
writes here about our dear Scientific Method:
There is no Scientific Method:
http://bigthink.com/in-their-own-words/there-is-no-scientific-method
Peter
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Dr. Peter
after reading Thomas Kuhn, Nassim Nicholas taleb, WadeBroad, Roland
Benabou, and after some experience in the backcourt of democracy and
Science, you know that it is a myth...
anyway, with hurts and delays it finally works... with some bloody
revolution regularly.
2013/5/2 Peter Gluck
Yes, eventually it works, but what works actually is the Science of tomorrow
not the Science with which we start
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.com wrote:
after reading Thomas Kuhn, Nassim Nicholas taleb, WadeBroad, Roland
Benabou, and after some experience in
I think what people are saying: The concept of science works but the
application frequently sucks! The Scientific method is a guide, like
the Ten Commandments, but is likewise frequently ignored.
Nevertheless, the idea works and provides an incentive for people who
need a guide.
Ed
I think that in case experiments cannot be done, reality (facts) cannot
be known, theory cannot be verified or modified, the virtuous cycle is
interrupted and the scientific method fails.
Let's focus on LENR
Peter
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 9:10 PM, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote:
I
Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com wrote:
I think what people are saying: The concept of science works but the
application frequently sucks!
Well, also that the method is not perfect. It works sometimes but not other
times. It is like any other technique, or any other institution.
Some
I agree more with the vision of Kuhn and Taleb, that it is not accident but
structural.
all blackswan, paradigm change, inconvenient anomalies, are treated the
same, for reason that are clear and unavoidable.
today what happened with LENR is described perfectly by Kuhn.
nothing else could have
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