7 | Michael Strevens on how science really works
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The Iron Rule and the Journals
The journal is the board on which the game is played. It's precisely the place where the official results are communicated, and therefore where the rule applies. So it'svery natural that the whole institution of the scientific journal is built up around insuring that the rule is properly applied. The journals are basically run by scientists themselves. They're responsible for givinga thumbs up or thumbs down to the research just on the grounds of whether it conforms to the rule. And i am thinking of science and the whole scientific method, with the iron rule at its core, as hanging there on the tree. If only we pluck that fruit, then we will have all of the knowledge of the way
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