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The Scientific Method is meant to answer questions based on observation and experimentation.

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Causation in physics

Electromagnetic radiation phenomena exhibit a temporal asymmetry: we observe radiation coherently diverging from a radiating source, such the light emitted by a star, but we do not observe radiation c …
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speculative deductive reasoning

Is hypothetico-deductive reasoning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetico-deductive_model and speculative deductive reasoning same ? (speculative deductive reasoning- WE arrive at the explanans pro …
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Is there a way to tell if something is science versus pseudoscience?

Is there a litmus test to know whether something is science or pseudoscience? There are many things which is quite ambiguous like ayurveda, homeopathy, psychology, biology, etc...
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Is finding data to fit a hypothesis unscientific? [closed]

It seems to me that many people find observations/data in order to fit the hypothesis or to prove the conclusion of their arguments. In one example, one might regard taking a set of lab data and going …
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Loops in logic and reasoning

While studying science I have come across many times loops in logic.for example in survival of the fittest who is fit~who survives and who survives~who is fit. My question is how to deal with these lo …
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