{"id":378,"date":"2010-09-04T21:33:13","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T21:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2010\/09\/04\/on_the_easy_questions\/"},"modified":"2010-09-04T21:33:13","modified_gmt":"2010-09-04T21:33:13","slug":"on_the_easy_questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2010\/09\/04\/on_the_easy_questions\/","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&#8211;conflict of interest declaration&#8211;I 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>\n<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>\nPlease 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. And I know commenting here puts some people off, so feel free to comment at the <a href=\"http:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/2010\/09\/04\/286\/\">BioLOG<\/a>, where you don&#8217;t have to sign up for an account&#8230;<\/p>\n<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&#8211;conflict of interest declaration&#8211;I helped organize). I&#8217;ll be writing up my speaker notes for the final panel tomorrow, I hope, but in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2010\/09\/04\/on_the_easy_questions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}