Science is a term for research or application that argues in a relationship to factors appropriate only to the the research and application, whereas bad science has alternative paradigms within its process and thereby produces ideology that is susceptible to contradiction.
Science has to do with discourse, right. I guess bad science could involve false discourse, fake data, inaccurate analysis, invalid findings etc. Just an opinion....
Good enough, but incomplete.
Stanley Milgram's experiments years ago reflect many psychology experiments in that generalisations are made from situational episodes. Why? Well, Milgram I suspect needed to prove the basic tendencies towards violence of human beings, mainly men. He had an agenda.
If we follow highly standard scientific ethics, then there is NO bad science!
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To me it's an openness to outcome and data. Very few issues in science are clear, all too often, a scientific explanation does not explain 100% of the data. Bad science focuses on those data that support the science, even though that does not teach us anything. Good science focuses on those situations that don't fit the "accepted" explanation - though it's often a thankless task!
I think conclusions here reflect the individual's science, and in more practical ones, such as mechanical engineering, the issues may not easily arise.
If a study or profession claims what it is doing is science, do you immediately accept that without asking them for justification?
I think science may be Observations of progressive evolution in qualitative way as well as in experimental method. Hypothetical views or ideas may be a bad science.
Geddada, yes certainly but there is bad science meeting the conditions I posed. I have come across examples here where results are flawed by alternative agendas.
Science is actually a broad spectrum of systematically organized analyses of the physical and natural world through observations and experiments that also involve realistic hypotheses. Science is incomplete without exciting hypotheses.
Bad science is perhaps application of fraud and unethical practices in carrying out experiments and any sort of research.
I wonder how can science be bad.Science should not be restricted only to the research & laboratory areas ,science has an very wide area directly related to our mind & brain which remain a contributory factor for every action of human beings .
This is my personal opinion
there is no bad science, good science may also be used for bad purposes
Mushtaq, this is simply not true. There are scientific ideas based upon unverified conclusions. Many out there. You are using the term in its moral category, not whether it meets scientific justification. Mine is: does its information and stance concur with the object, so any discussion on clouds must be to do with that, not with solutions that improve the scientists status for example.
Look at my recent paper on monamine hypothesis for a case that I believe establishes my point. An hypothesis that created greater influence for the group that expound and champion it-and have propagated it extensively so it is generally believed. This is how these matters work.
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