Adventures in Ethics and Science: Scientific and unscientific conclusions
Janet Stemwedel at AES has collected a LOT of perspectives on the scientific process and interpreted them as flowcharts. Not only are they geek-chic, they give me nostalgic fuzzies of teaching 100-level Introduction to Science (before I switched over to powerpoint).
Janet’s post centers on whether “belief” should be in this flowchart, or not. Is a scientist obligated to “believe” the results of the scientific process? Or is “belief” nonessential to good science? I tend to believe (ahem) that belief can be left out entirely, but if you disagree, there’s a flowchart for you, too.