It’s probably best to get the bad news out of the way first. The so-called scientific method is a myth. That is not to say that scientists don’t do things that can be described and are unique to their ...

Crowd sourcing approaches can offer great opportunities to address a variety of challenges facing the scientific community. One such example is Philip Morris International’s (PMI) sbv IMPROVER. To ...

Though scientific research encompasses a broad spectrum of research, these experiments all follow the same scientific method. What, exactly, is science? It's something people in lab coats do, right?

This procedure, using experiment and observation to generate evidence to support or disprove a theory, is called empirical, meaning 'based on observation or experiment'. Theories developed and ...

A lot of ink has been spilled on the question of what will ultimately win: the scientific method, an approach to learning about the world by coming up with theories and testing those theories against ...

This chapter describes how NICE's public health 'evidence reviews' are produced. These are normally conducted by external contractors, but occasionally they may be done by an internal NICE review team ...

Science is under attack. As the new administration moves aggressively toward implementing its policies, the entire field could find itself the victim of decisions by individuals who lack the knowledge ...