Why medicine still needs a scientific foundation: restating the hypotheticodeductive model — part two

[摘要] AN early model of the scientific method was inductivism: repeated observations of associated phenomena lead to general laws. That this attractively simple notion has no logical basis is easily shown by considering the story of the turkey which observed that its feed arrived after the lights came on for 364 consecutive days. Its conclusion that the illumination caused the appearance of food was proven wrong on Christmas eve.

[学科分类] 卫生学