Claims that the “the science isn’t settled” with regard to climate change are symptomatic of a large body of ignorance about how science works. So what is the scientific method, and why do so many ...

This paper is a case study on long-term population events concerning the spreading and the subsequent decline of the samson character among Finnish red foxes. Three different hypotheses have been put ...

Explore the hypothetico-deductive method and its role in testing hypotheses in science with insights on cognitive biases. Let's focus on two things: the hypothetical deductive method and essential ...

We question whether the growing popularity of model selection based on information theory (IT) and using the Akaike's Information Criterion (AIC) represent a useful paradigm shift in data analysis or ...