Contents --- Method for Finding Scientific Truth

• Introduction
• A Scientific Theory Is...
• Other Features of a Successful Scientific Theory
• Correlations May Not Prove the Cause
• The Problem of Induction
• Science as a Human Endeavor
  • Assumptions of Scientists
  • Materialism: Methodology vs. Philosophy
• Ways of Finding the Truth
  • Science's Way of Finding the Truth
  • Theory Must Agree With Reality
• Is the Scientific Method the Only Way to Truth?
  • Ideas Change, Physical Laws Do Not
  • Perception Changes Reality?
  • Value of Examining Assumptions
  • Peer Review
  • Misinformation and Disinformation

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