Here I will try to describe the scientific method in simple words — what it is, how it works, and how we can break it into a list of easily understandable singular ideas, in this article called 'points'.
First of all, the scientific method is not carved on tablets, like the commandments of Moses; it can change and update itself. This article compiles the points of the scientific method that are more or less recognized by the global consensus at the time of writing (or the last update). At the same time, this method is the best we have so far for constructing both abstract concepts of the world and, ultimately, working and useful technologies.
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This comment seems to be generated by a large language model with prompt 'Find anything that could be pointed out as wrong or incomplete in this article'.
1. No, the Bayesian inversion mention is not about p-value in any way.
2. This sounds as raising the standards for claiming anything, but without any alternative provided; fine, let's agree that peer review is not enough, then what is?
3. Yes, consistency of ZFC IS a scientific consensus at the time. No, the article doesn't claim that logic depends on ZFC - quite the opposite, ZFC depends on logic, or logic can be thought of as the bottom level of ZFC.
4. The experiment in the anti-example should... (read more)