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All research makes assumptions. You can’t test everything about the universe in each experiment. The nice thing about science is that others can then challenge

• constantcrying 3y ago
  If your research assumes the outcome of the research it isn't research, it is wish fulfillment. It is totally disingenuous to claim I am "against science making assumptions". Obviously. Why do you feel the need to lie like that?
  • galacticbang 3y ago
    Haven’t you just described a hypothesis? Hypotheses describe what you think will be the outcome of the research based on the researchers’ current observations and understanding of the world. Scientists aren’t neutral observers standing outside the world. They have inherent biases and those biases shape the research that they conduct. It is both the scientific method and the scientific review process that are supposed to ensure, despite these biases, that the research was sound and the findings valid.
    • constantcrying 3y ago
      No. Because you have to be agnostic to the truth of the hypothesis. A good experiment does not try to confirm the hypothesis, a good experiment tests the hypothesis. For that it has to be open for disproving the hypothesis. Setting up an experiment with the goal of demonstrating a hypothesis and then doing everything you can to achieve that goal is exactly how the replication crisis happened. That is why p-hacking occurs. Of course scientists are biased, but they need to try to avoid it to do research. Embracing bias, "because everyone is biased" is ridiculous and legitimately insane.