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What's Wrong With Single Hypotheses
It's time to eschew enthrallment in science
Email: Don L Jewett - djewett@itsa.ucsf.edu The Scientist 2005, 19(21):10
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The classic description of the scientific method begins with devising a hypothesis. The problem with starting with a hypothesis, however, is that bias and self-delusion can arise owing to an emotional attachment to the hypothesis, as Chamberlin honestly described in 1897:
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