Renaissance law student, investment enthusiast, bicycle racing junkie and fellow blogger, Douglass Ott has a thoughtful article on science referencing a law school lecture. It is illuminating when you conisder how science is debased and manipulated to achieve political ends. Read the article here in his blog, Yes and Not Yes. (see recommended sites)

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Now that we have a definition of science, we can go into a little more detail about the factors that comprise “good” science. Good science is consistent meaning that it is built upon previous science. Good science is parsimonious – the more complicated an explanation the less likely it is to be true (think Occam’s razor). It is empirically testable – if it can’t be tested, its not science. Good science is also progressive, and useful.

These two factors are fairly obvious but still worth mentioning: (1) is there a lack of controlled experiments and (2) has the scientist refused to revise his findings despite being proven wrong?

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