Comments on: Politics: SO Rigorous. SO Logical. http://scienceaintsobad.com/archives/3168 science, medicine, technology. If it's science, it's funny! Sun, 29 Aug 2010 01:12:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: herbalecstacy http://scienceaintsobad.com/archives/3168/comment-page-1#comment-256 herbalecstacy Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:00:56 +0000 http://scienceaintsobad.com/?p=3168#comment-256 Hi all, we found this here after a fast google search. Fine post you have here! Keep it up! Hi all, we found this here after a fast google search. Fine post you have here! Keep it up!

]]> By: MISTER ScienceAintSoBad http://scienceaintsobad.com/archives/3168/comment-page-1#comment-203 MISTER ScienceAintSoBad Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:35:25 +0000 http://scienceaintsobad.com/?p=3168#comment-203 You're not saying debate has no role in science, are you? You’re not saying debate has no role in science, are you?

]]> By: Dick Pirozzolo http://scienceaintsobad.com/archives/3168/comment-page-1#comment-201 Dick Pirozzolo Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:39:52 +0000 http://scienceaintsobad.com/?p=3168#comment-201 Debate, political or otherwise, has not been science since the scientific method supplanted the Socratic Method. If one can develop -- through observation -- and test -- actually try to disprove -- a hypothesis, and one relies instead on debate, then truth relies on the skill of the debater and not the quality of the research. Now here is the question: How do so many adults get through high school, indeed 7th grade, and run for public office without a fundamental understanding of: what is a "Theory," what is a "Hypothesis," and what is "an experiment." Back in the day, even the bookish kids who were flummoxed by Chem. 101 had to get some understanding of the scientific method from reading Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith. Debate, political or otherwise, has not been science since the scientific method supplanted the Socratic Method. If one can develop — through observation — and test — actually try to disprove — a hypothesis, and one relies instead on debate, then truth relies on the skill of the debater and not the quality of the research.

Now here is the question: How do so many adults get through high school, indeed 7th grade, and run for public office without a fundamental understanding of: what is a “Theory,” what is a “Hypothesis,” and what is “an experiment.”

Back in the day, even the bookish kids who were flummoxed by Chem. 101 had to get some understanding of the scientific method from reading Sinclair Lewis’s Arrowsmith.

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