Content tagged "scientific method"
-
Posted by Michael Greshko S.M., Science Writing, 2015
Topics: biology, magnetic field, magnetoreception, pathological science, reproducibility, robin baker, Science Writing, scientific method, sensesThere and Back Again?: Reproducibility and the Hunt for a Human Compass Sense
How biologist Robin Baker’s search for a human magnetic homing sense illustrates the necessity of reproducibility in science and underscores science’s messy realities.
-
Posted by James (Scott) Berdahl S.M., Science Writing, 2010
Topics: Alan Hildebrand, conspiracies, Meteoritics, Peter Brown, scientific method, Tagish Lake, YukonMorning Light: The Secret History of the Tagish Lake Fireball
The story of the fall, recovery and the study of the Tagish Lake Fireball highlights the necessary uncertainties of the scientific method, and the relationship between science and the general public.