What exactly is the scientific method and why do so many people get it wrong?

Australian Humanist, The 125:14 (2017)
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Ellerton, Peter So what is the scientific method, and why do so many people, sometimes including those trained in science, get it so wrong? The first thing to understand is that there is no one method in science, no one way of doing things. This is intimately connected with how we reason in general.

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