This is the basis of the modern scientific method. It blossomed in the 17th century, when a new breed of thinkers took the view that scientific knowledge can only come from first-hand observation.

This week, the spotlight is on the scientific method: As the world scrambles to deal with the spread of the coronavirus, scientists around the world are working hard trying to devise a vaccine.

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In service of an arbitrary threshold, p-values often lead researchers to make poorly supported claims and ignore interesting but insignificant results, scientists argue. Nobel laureate Venki ...