You wrote: "The name of the game is to increase and decrease confidence in hypotheses by any legitimate statistical method, not to follow "the" method." The de

You wrote: "The name of the game is to increase and decrease confidence in hypotheses by any legitimate statistical method, not to follow "the" method." The definition I cited says nothing about the particulars - it just enumerates three essential elements. What would you propose instead as general principles for a scientific method?