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 Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia Science -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Science (from scientia, Latin for "knowledge") has come to mean a body of knowledge, or a method of study devoted to developing this body of knowledge, concerning the universe gained through methodological observation and experimentation.
Implicit in science's devotion to acquiring knowledge about the universe is an assumption that there is a reality that exists independent of a mind (or minds) perceiving it.
The term "science" is sometimes pressed into service for new and interdisciplinary fields that make use of scientific methods at least in part, and which in any case aspire to be systematic and careful explorations of their subjects, including computer science, library and information science, and environmental science.
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 ipedia.com: Pathological science Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Pathological science is a term created by the Nobel Prize -winning chemist Irving Langmuir during a colloquium at The Knolls Research Laboratory, December 18, 1953.
Pathological science describes a psychological process in which a scientist, originally conforming to scientific method, unconsciously veers from that method, and begins a pathological process of wishful data interpretation.
Bauer, Henry H., " 'Pathological Science' is not Scientific Misconduct (nor is it pathological)".
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 Pathological science: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
He wrote that science is pathological when "the precise physical mechanism is not fully understood." ().
In philosophy of science, a protoscience is any new area of scientific endeavor in the process of becoming established....
Junk science is a term used to derogate purportedly scientific data, research, analyses or claims which are driven by political, financial or other questionable motives....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pa/pathological_science.htm   (3313 words)

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