>> Russell McMahon wrote:
>> .........
>> >
>> >        An unfair test as the scientific method seeks only to
>> >        disprove anything.
>> >
>> >ie the SM proposes models, builds hypotheses based on the models and then
>> >proposes tests to attemp to FALSIFY the model.
>>
>>
>> Re use of the word "FALSIFY", twould appear they teach SM slightly
>> differently in other places:
>>
>>
>http://teacher.nsrl.rochester.edu/phy_labs/AppendixE/AppendixE.html#Heading3
>>
>http://phyun5.ucr.edu/~wudka/Physics7/Notes_www/node6.html#SECTION0212100000
>> 0000000000
>> http://pc65.frontier.osrhe.edu/hs/science/hsimeth.htm
>> http://home.xnet.com/~blatura/skep_1.html
>> http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/resources/cf/SciProjInter.html
>
>
>
>I'll have a look, but I'll stick my neck out now and say that, if their
>method does not correspond generally with what I was saying then
>
>        - It aint the Scientific Method (regardless of what they may say)
>
>        - This is what you'd expect  :-)
>


Point is, the initial steps in the SM involve trying to find data
to "support" the model, rather than falsify it.

Later, once ego takes over, then one tries to find data to
falsify your competitor's models.

Imagine teaching SM to a school student: "..... next formulate
a model, and then try to find data which falsifies that which you
just formulated ...." - and small wonder teenagers might think
that their elders are so dumb.

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