Description: A blog celebrating the spirit of science and the scientific method.
Celebrating the Spirit of Science and the Scientific Method
Dr. Abhas Mitra, author of the bestseller book The Rise and Fall of the Blackhole Paradigm (2021), has published an Amazon-India review of my book, which I reproduce below. This is followed by my clarification of some of the points made by him. The points I respond to are marked with superscripts (i) , (ii) , etc.
Dr. Mitra’s review reads as follows: ========== * * * * * One of the most valued books I have ever read, though the cheapest one It may sound disappointing that many scientists practising science do so as a routine profession without worrying too much about “Scientific Methods”. Of course good scientists and good science students do possess some ideas about the scientific methods to be employed while doing science. However even the good scientists may not feel the requirement to delve into various latent d