Matter • Energy • Life-on-Earth… Measurement & Math… Technology… Experimental Design

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The “Star Trek Game”: While “boldly seeking out new worlds” as captain of the Enterprise… the Admiral allows you an exception to the Prime Directive (non-interference with alien civilization rule)…

a planet is dying and if the natives don’t have a scientific revolution soon they will perish: You may tell the young civilization one scientific secret before you move on. What would you tell them?

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From Seminar Blog: Question Assumptions… “There’s a Scientific study proving that…”

Replication, the ability of another lab to reproduce a finding, is the gold standard of science, reassurance that you have discovered something true.  But….

… colleagues could not replicate 47 of 53 landmark papers about cancer

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