So this week was about the method and philosophy of Science. To look at these issues we focussed on the sterile definitions of the Wikipedia citations and the raw emotion of the methods and philosophies in conflict as portrayed in the video "The Race for the Double Helix" mostly confirmed by the NOVA documemtary "The Secret of Photo 51". We saw revealed a number of methods of doing scientific work but the conflict was a result of the Baconian (inductive) or Cartesian (deductive) philosophy that worked in each scientist.
I made reference to a phrase (it sounds better in the original Klingon):
"Science knows only one commandment: contribute to Science"
Bertolt Brecht
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