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The wikipedia one is ok, but really most of that is stuffed into my #1 and it treats the "forming and testing a hypothesis" part too superficially. What did I write that makes you think the two are in conflict?

I wrote:

"figure out what situations naturally arise or that can be devised that produce consistent, stable phenomenon."

This is the same as figuring out the "reproducible manner".

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I don't think you understood what I took issue with in your post.

You said:

> Passing peer review is something used as a substitute for reproducibility

And what I'm saying is "No, it's not". Reproducibility of the results is the most important aspect of the scientific method, otherwise, as I said above: "what's the point really? We would resort to trust or belief in one's sayings."

Oh. I never said that was a good thing. Institutionalized peer review as its done today is a relatively new thing, introduced post-WWII. Ie, that statement was descriptive, not normative.

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/peer-review-no...

OK, thanks for clarifying, I obviously misread your comment.

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