{"id":712,"date":"2008-06-28T13:20:21","date_gmt":"2008-06-28T05:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/http:\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/archives\/2008\/06\/2008_06_28_1320.php"},"modified":"2008-06-28T13:20:21","modified_gmt":"2008-06-28T05:20:21","slug":"is-the-scientific-method-obsolete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/28\/is-the-scientific-method-obsolete","title":{"rendered":"Is the Scientific Method obsolete?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a kick reading an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/science\/discoveries\/magazine\/16-07\/pb_theory\/#\/\" title=\"read article\">article by <em>Wired&#8217;s<\/em> editor in chief<\/a>; which to me, was just intellectual masturbation (poorly executed at that), and hopefully would not be taken seriously. Then again, considering there are idiots who believe in <em>&#8220;intelligent design,&#8221;<\/em> I guess common sense would be too much to hope for.<\/p>\n<p>The article suggests that given the abundance of available information through <em>any<\/em> form of media, statistical correlation supersedes causation. He [correctly] used Google as an example; wherein they are able to provide reliable search results by mere statistical analysis.<\/p>\n<p>So basically, if you want to apply statistical correlation as truth, then one could suggest that hospitals kill people, because <strong>clearly<\/strong> the majority of deaths happen within their evil walls! And statistically, that correlation <em>will<\/em> increase over time&#8230; the horror! They <em>must<\/em> be destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20080625-why-the-cloud-cannot-obscure-the-scientific-method.html\" title=\"read the article\">Ars Technica<\/a> was there to set things straight. But I personally can&#8217;t help being a bit fidgety, since Ars has been bought by Wired&#8217;s parent company &#8211; which is kinda ironic and amusing in a disturbing sort of way. It&#8217;s nice to know though that as of now, Ars still is a reliable source of intelligent information &#8211; let&#8217;s hope that never changes.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a kick reading an article by Wired&#8217;s editor in chief; which to me, was just intellectual masturbation (poorly executed at that), and hopefully would not be taken seriously. Then again, considering there are idiots who believe in &#8220;intelligent design,&#8221; I guess common sense would be too much to hope for. The article suggests &hellip; <p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/28\/is-the-scientific-method-obsolete\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is the Scientific Method obsolete?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[102,1295],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-internet","tag-ars","tag-wired"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}