Counterpoint: the scientific method is much simpler than you described.
- Fuck around
- Find out
- Write it down
The rest are details of the above or elitism.
WhatIsH2O4
joined 11 months ago
The liberal who doesn't believe in the concept of critical support.
Alternate PhD
Spoken like a round leaf.
What a shit parable.
Fucking GOOD! Holy hell, still a terrible story to imagine.
It's often the same for science, though there are actual experts who occasionally weigh in too.
And the jolly rancher.
That's assuming they are competent enough to even use a PDF.
I agree with you last point, and I really, really want to with the first.
Sometimes science feels more like an art, for chemistry at least. I suppose the counter-point to this is: if you provide sufficient detail to reproduce but your results are still difficult to reproduce reliably by others, then your process wasn't very robust and should have undergone more development before publishing. Those details may be so minor that you don't even realize that you overlooked something.