Editing Scientific method (section)

=== Honesty, openness, and falsifiability ===
{{See also|Scientific integrity|Open science}}

The unfettered principles of science are to strive for accuracy and the creed of honesty; openness already being a matter of degrees. Openness is restricted by the general rigour of scepticism. And of course the matter of non-science.

Smolin, in 2013, espoused ethical principles rather than giving any potentially limited definition of the rules of inquiry.{{efn-lg|name= ethicalPosition}} His ideas stand in the context of the scale of data–driven and [[big science]], which has seen increased importance of honesty and consequently [[reproducibility]]. His thought is that science is a community effort by those who have accreditation and are working within the [[Scientific community|community]]. He also warns against overzealous parsimony.

Popper previously took ethical principles even further, going as far as to ascribe value to theories only if they were falsifiable. Popper used the falsifiability criterion to demarcate a scientific theory from a theory like astrology: both "explain" observations, but the scientific theory takes the risk of making predictions that decide whether it is right or wrong:<ref name=Popper0>
{{cite book |author=Karl Raimund Popper |title=The logic of scientific discovery |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T76Zd20IYlgC&q=%22It+must+be+possible+for+an+empirical+scientific+system+to+be+refuted+by+experience%22&pg=PA18 |pages= 18, 280 |isbn=0415278430|publisher=Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group |year=2002 |edition=Reprint of translation of 1935 ''Logik der Forschung''}}
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{{cite web |title=Science: Conjectures and refutations |author=Karl Popper |url=http://worthylab.tamu.edu/courses_files/popper_conjecturesandrefutations.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130909021911/http://worthylab.tamu.edu/courses_files/popper_conjecturesandrefutations.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-09-09 |publisher=Texas A&M University The motivation & cognition interface lab |access-date=2013-01-22 }} This lecture by Popper was first published as part of the book ''Conjectures and Refutations'' and is linked [http://worthylab.tamu.edu/Courses.html here].
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{{blockquote|"Those among us who are unwilling to expose their ideas to the hazard of refutation do not take part in the game of science."
|Karl Popper|''The Logic of Scientific Discovery (2002 [1935])''}}