Scientific Method

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This is one of those is/is not articles.

For more background, see the Wikipedia article on this same topic.

The Scientific Method:

• Establishes a methodology by which we can establish and predict how systems of the world will work.
• Provides us the ability to challenge monolithic systems and formally provide and examine observations that challenge the validity of those systems.
• Gives us a system of practical ethics that all "scientific" investigators are honor-bound to follow.

The Scientific Method is not/does not:

• Provide you with incontrovertible facts. There may be things that the scientific method makes us think are great likelihoods that last for a very long time, but the scientific method encourages us to question and challenge those likelihoods and over time, many of them fall but contribute to new great likelihoods as we fine-tune or change our theories.
• Reassure us that the scientific studies we are exposed to are reliable or unbiased. We have to evaluate that ourselves, usually with a combination of critical thinking/reading (some scientific research is funded by biased parties, and initial assumptions are not as unbiased as we'd all like them to be/some scientific research is undertaken against the principles of the scientific method and set out to prove particular assertions right) and survey research (researching more than one study and comparing them to each other for reproducibility).
• Assure us that currently accepted theories will withstand the test of time. Almost certainly they will not.