The dominance of a particular understanding of "the scientific method"—usually the hypothesis-experiment-conclusion model of textbook science—as the only legitimate path to reliable knowledge about anything. Under scientific method hegemony, this specific procedure is treated as universally applicable across all domains of inquiry, and any knowledge produced through other means (historical analysis, philosophical reasoning, artistic insight, lived experience) is automatically suspect. It's the assumption that if you can't test it in a lab, you can't really know it—a methodological imperialism that colonizes all other ways of understanding.
Example: "He demanded a double-blind study of whether his girlfriend loved him—scientific method hegemony so complete that he couldn't recognize knowledge gained through relationship as knowledge at all."
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Get the Scientific Method Hegemony mug.The collection of biases that distort how the scientific method is understood, applied, and evaluated—not biases within science, but biases about the scientific method itself. These include: treating the method as a rigid, unvarying procedure rather than a flexible set of practices; assuming all sciences use identical methods; believing the method guarantees truth rather than reducing error; mistaking the idealized textbook description for the messy reality of actual scientific practice; and using "the scientific method" as a cudgel to dismiss any inquiry that doesn't match one's narrow conception of it. Scientific Method Biases are the meta-cognitive errors that prevent people from understanding how science actually works.
Scientific Method Biases Example: "He dismissed an entire field as 'unscientific' because it didn't use double-blind randomized controlled trials—his Scientific Method Bias made him mistake one field's methods for the universal template of all science."
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The specific bias where one treats a particular understanding of the scientific method—usually the simplified hypothesis-experiment-conclusion model from textbooks—as the exclusive, universal, and timeless template for all legitimate knowledge-seeking. Scientific Method Bias dismisses historical sciences (geology, astronomy, evolutionary biology) because they can't run experiments, social sciences because they can't fully control variables, and any inquiry that doesn't match the template as somehow less valid. It mistakes one useful procedure for the procedure, one historical development for the timeless standard, one cultural product for the universal logic of inquiry.
Scientific Method Bias Example: "He claimed history wasn't a real science because you can't run experiments on the past—pure Scientific Method Bias, mistaking one field's methods for the definition of science itself."
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