scientific method

Starting from the assumption that you are wrong may help push scientific research forward, says Tania Lombrozo.

A New Goal: Aim To Be Less Wrong

by Tania Lombrozo

When beginning from the assumption that you are wrong, a criticism may be easier to construe as a helpful pointer, says psychologist Tania Lombrozo.
A Hubble Space Telescope image of the Ant Nebula. Astrophysicist Adam Frank spent last week at an international meeting in Hong Kong trying to understand the science of what these objects tell us about the last gasp of dying stars like the sun.

Science's Journey From Data To Truth

by Adam Frank

There's more to the scientific method than what you learn in high school: Scientists argue with each other, too, and the participation of nature — whose say is absolute — is key, says Adam Frank.