Biology

Pseudoscience

A collection of beliefs or practices mistakenly regarded as being based on scientific method

Law

A set of norms, which can be observed in both sociological and philosophical sense

Hypothesis

A tentative explanation that a scientist proposes for a specific phenomenon that has been observed

Control in an Experiment

An uneffected variable that has a known outcome

Science

Any method of learning about the natural world that follows the scientific method

Scientific Method

Scientific Investigation involving the observation of a phenomena, the formulation of a hypothesis concerning the phenomena, experimentation to demonstrate the truth or falseness of the hypothesis, and results that validate or modify the hypothesis

Experiment

a scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery, test a hypothesis, or demonstrate a known fact.

Theory

a widely accepted explanatory idea that is broad in scope and supported by a large body of evidence

Deductive Logic

the process of reasoning from the general to the specific

Inductive Logic

the process of reasoning from the specific to the general

Scientific Observation

central element to the scientific method

Double Blinded Experiments

An experimental procedure in which neither the subjects nor the experimenters know which subjects are int he test and control groups during the actual course of the experiments

Blinded Experiments

An experimental procedure in which the experimenters but not the subjects know the makeup of the test and control groups during the actual course of the experiments