A meta-framework examining how conceptions of the scientific method stretch across history, culture, and discipline. The Elasticity of the Scientific Method studies how method has been defined—from Baconian induction to Popperian falsification to Kuhnian paradigms to Feyerabend's "anything goes"—and how these definitions stretch under pressure from new sciences, new technologies, new questions. It asks: what are the limits of method's stretch? When does stretching become loss of rigor? How does method recover from its own failures? It's methodology reflecting on its own history and possibilities.
"The scientific method used to mean controlled experiments; now it means modeling, simulation, big data mining. Theory of the Elasticity of the Scientific Method says that's a stretch—maybe too far for some, necessary for others. The question is whether method can stretch to include new ways of knowing without losing what makes it science."
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Did you know ducks are necrophiles?
That's duck science
They don't have sphincters, dump in piles
That's why ducks don't buy pants
And we have to face this
Male ducks are rapists!
DuckTales! Whoo-ooh!
Scientifically accurate
DuckTales! Whoo-ooh!
Crazy, pooping birds should go to duck jails...
Then there's the whole pool of gold
Scrooge won't write a check
And whether he was young or old
If he dived in, he'd break his neck
A gold pile looks neat
But it's hard as concrete!
DuckTales! Whoo-ooh!
Scientifically accurate--
D-D-D-Danger, a duck's behind you
Boy or girl, a duck will grind you
Also, ducks are cannibals, true
DuckTales! Whoo-ooh!
Have salmonella and H5N1 bird flu! Whoo-ooh!
Scientifically accurate
DuckTales! Whoo-ooh!
Last verse is on genitalia
So stay in your places
Because ducks hump so much,
Girl ducks have vagina mazes
To screw around this,
Ducks grew a corkscrew phallus!
DuckTales! Whoo-ooh!
Disgusting, crapping, cannibalistic
DuckTales! Whoo-ooh!
Penis in the shape of a corkscrew
DuckTales!
Did you know ducks are necrophiles?
That's duck science
They don't have sphincters, dump in piles
That's why ducks don't buy pants
And we have to face this
Male ducks are rapists!
DuckTales! Whoo-ooh!
Scientifically accurate
DuckTales! Whoo-ooh!
Crazy, pooping birds should go to duck jails...
Then there's the whole pool of gold
Scrooge won't write a check
And whether he was young or old
If he dived in, he'd break his neck
A gold pile looks neat
But it's hard as concrete!
DuckTales! Whoo-ooh!
Scientifically accurate--
D-D-D-Danger, a duck's behind you
Boy or girl, a duck will grind you
Also, ducks are cannibals, true
DuckTales! Whoo-ooh!
Have salmonella and H5N1 bird flu! Whoo-ooh!
Scientifically accurate
DuckTales! Whoo-ooh!
Last verse is on genitalia
So stay in your places
Because ducks hump so much,
Girl ducks have vagina mazes
To screw around this,
Ducks grew a corkscrew phallus!
DuckTales! Whoo-ooh!
Disgusting, crapping, cannibalistic
DuckTales! Whoo-ooh!
Penis in the shape of a corkscrew
DuckTales!
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Science defines Sonic the Hedgehog
Runs six feet per second, but is nearly blind
Sonic the Hedgehog
Hedgehogs get cancer and rabies
Hedgehogs eat their own babies
Hedgehogs defecate while they run fa-ee-ast!
When hedgehogs find poop, they put it in their mouths
Mix it with saliva till lips a-foam
Then rub it on themselves
Science doesn't know why they do this
Why would a hedgehog do this?
They eat shit and then rub it on their ba-ee-acks!
Sonic's got a lot of pals
Cats, bats, rabbits, frogs
His best friend is Tails the Fox
But foxes eat hedgehogs
Knuckles is an echidna
They can't fly, don't have a punching claw
But they're known for having a four-headed dick
It's the only one like it
Scientifically accurate!
Science defines Sonic the Hedgehog
Runs six feet per second, but is nearly blind
Sonic the Hedgehog
Hedgehogs get cancer and rabies
Hedgehogs eat their own babies
Hedgehogs defecate while they run fa-ee-ast!
When hedgehogs find poop, they put it in their mouths
Mix it with saliva till lips a-foam
Then rub it on themselves
Science doesn't know why they do this
Why would a hedgehog do this?
They eat shit and then rub it on their ba-ee-acks!
Sonic's got a lot of pals
Cats, bats, rabbits, frogs
His best friend is Tails the Fox
But foxes eat hedgehogs
Knuckles is an echidna
They can't fly, don't have a punching claw
But they're known for having a four-headed dick
It's the only one like it
Scientifically accurate!
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