Scientific method

A 2 step process of learning and understanding about the world.
I order to begin the process you need a question.

Once you have answers to seek begin the process.
Step 1: fuck around
Step 2: find out

Repeat as many times as necessary.

"hey man, do you think the boys are gonna be on Playstation tonight?"
"only way to know is to use the scientific method."

by TheboysinCS October 3, 2020

scientific method

A method for gathering data about the world around us. Using the scientific method involves coming up with a hypothesis about how something works, and then trying as hard as you can to prove it wrong. If you can't prove yourself wrong then you cannot say you proved yourself right. you can only say you didn't disprove your hypothesis. In the scientific method you can never prove yourself right, you can only prove you weren't wrong. This is often seen as a tedious and annoying aspect of science by outsiders, but in fact scientific minded individuals gain great joy in being skeptical of everything. If you cannot diprove your hypothesis than it is usually phrased something like "The data supported our hypothesis." This is generally followed by a detailed explanation of everything that could have been wrong with your research that could have led to a failure to disprove yourself. Through this method something can become considered a theory only if many many generations of scientists have failed to find any way to prove the hypothesis wrong. This is a considerable accomplishment as most scientists will spend their entire lives finding critiques in method or theory in the research of others, and trying to find a way to disprove their findings. Information acquired in this way is the only information that can be trusted to have any semblance of truth.

Did you hear about how video games make children violent?
Was the scientific method used to reach this conclusion?

Hey a recent study found that fake sweetener can give you cancer.

That study was never replicated.

Evolution is just a theory.
If by theory you mean a conclusion that genarations of researchers have failed to find any way to disprove in hundreds of years time then yes it is.

by pandorlla May 27, 2010

Scientific Method

Fuck around and find out

person one: "hey dude I dont know how to figure out how thos works"

person two: "dude, just use the scientific method"

person one: "ah, fuck around, find out. alsomost forgot"

by Filbo Ogies September 17, 2020

scientific method

DJ

Aaron: Use your brain cells
DJ: Brain cells are called neurons scientific method

by air975 May 21, 2019

Scientific method

DJ

Aaron: Use your brain cells bum
DJ: SCIENTIFIC METHOD Brain cells are called neurons, and SCIENTIFIC METHOD its ya big bum

by A_R5619 May 21, 2019

Scientific Method Bias

The mistaken belief that the scientific method, as it is popularly understood (hypothesis, experiment, conclusion), is the only valid path to knowledge and that all other forms of understanding—philosophical reasoning, artistic insight, personal experience—are worthless. It’s a scientistic worldview that fails to recognize that science itself is built on philosophical assumptions (like the existence of an objective reality) that cannot be proven by science.

Example: "He tried to use Scientific Method Bias to argue that the concept of love is meaningless because you can't isolate it in a petri dish."

by Dumu The Void March 11, 2026

Scientific Method Hegemony

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."

by Dumu The Void March 12, 2026