{"id":286,"date":"2010-09-04T21:34:03","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T20:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/2010\/09\/04\/286\/"},"modified":"2010-09-04T21:35:54","modified_gmt":"2010-09-04T20:35:54","slug":"286","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/2010\/09\/04\/286\/","title":{"rendered":"On the easy questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just got back from a tiring but awesome couple of days at the Science Online London conference (which\u2014conflict of interest declaration\u2014I helped organize). I&#8217;ll be writing up my speaker notes for the final panel tomorrow, I hope, but in the meantime I&#8217;ve just been challenged by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ruthseeley\">Ruth Seeley<\/a> on twitter to explain the scientific method:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI&#8217;d LOVE it if ONE scientist would take on the challenge of CLEARLY explaining the scientific method. Wikipedia sure doesn&#8217;t.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mjrobbins\">Martin Robbins<\/a> took up the challenge straight away, but in the interests of clarity (and non-jargon) I&#8217;d like to see suggestions that might replace the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scientific_method\">Wikipedia entry<\/a>. As far as I&#8217;m concerned, these explanations should be lay-readable; understandable to a high school student, say. <\/p>\n<p>Please feel free to have a go, and then, seeing as the Wikipedia article is the first Google hit for &#8216;scientific method&#8217;, let&#8217;s edit the bloody thing to something more like. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just got back from a tiring but awesome couple of days at the Science Online London conference (which\u2014conflict of interest declaration\u2014I helped organize). I&#8217;ll be writing up my speaker notes for the final panel tomorrow, I hope, but in the meantime I&#8217;ve just been challenged by Ruth Seeley on twitter to explain the scientific [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[95,77],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-science","tag-scientific-method"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}