Science must begin with myths and with the criticism of myths.

– Karl Popper

The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.

– E.O. Wilson

I think that it will be found that a formal acknowledgment of the role of quality in the scientific process doesn’t destroy the empirical vision at all. It expands it, strengthens it and brings it far closer to actual scientific practice.

– robert-pirsig

Science is the project of trying to distingish causal patterns from all the correlation pattern

– john-verveake

We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game are what we mean by fundamental physics.

– Richard P. Feynman

Science is a set of protocols to take action that achieve results predicted by the theory

– bonnitta-roy, it's actor-network-theory

If science tends to thicken the crust of ice on which, as it were, we are skating, it is all right. If it tries to find, or professes to have found, the solid ground at the bottom of the water, it is all wrong.

• Samuel Butler

Notes

• Science can generate protocols to take actions that lead to the outcomes predicted by the theory. e.g. we can only understand the atom through a set of protocols for actions that lead to outcomes predicted by the theory, otherwise you can't find it.
• Science is the inversion of common-sense
• is an action-protocols that creates Theories and validates them
• requires adequat participation
• inference based hypothesis are getting out of hand likely and being scams
• “The Higgs Discovery is a celebration of modern bureaucracy, not a revelation about material reality.”

Notes on studies I encounter

• Challenging the Link Between Early Childhood Television Exposure and Later Attention Problems: A Multiverse Approach
• There's an interesting theory out there that X causes Y. If this were true, it would be pretty important. So I did a deep-dive into the academic literature on whether X causes Y. Here's what I found.
  • https://www.facebook.com/Xuenay/posts/10161158539663662
• Three arguments against prescription requirements Free
• paper "weird people"

  • members of WEIRD societies, including young children, are among the least representative populations one could find for generalizing about humans.

• process/methods
  • double-blind trials

    • A type of clinical trial in which neither the participants nor the researcher knows which treatment or intervention participants are receiving until the clinical trial is over. This makes results of the study less likely to be biased. This means that the results are less likely to be affected by factors that are not related to the treatment or intervention being tested.

  • random assignations

    • andom assignment is a way of placing participants from your sample into different groups using randomization.

Channels

• https://www.youtube.com/@QuantaScienceChannel

Related

• epistemic-humility

Links

• science without gobbledygook
• Our Present Dark Age, Part 1
• Misconceptions > Theories
• critical-realism
• the scientific method can only withing the scope of physicalism
• Observing many researchers using the same data and hypothesis reveals a hidden universe of uncertainty
• https://www.justinaharnish.com/post/conjecture-criticism
• The rise and fall of peer review
• Finding Peter Putnam - Nautilus