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I noted that reproducibility is an essential element of scientific knowledge, and that those journal articles that didn't share that quality, didn't deserve to be called science, a word that originally meant "highly established knowledge".  Instead, the most it deserved to be called was empirical opinion.

I noted that reproducibility is an essential element of scientific knowledge, and that those journal articles that didn't share that quality, didn't deserve to be called science, a word that originally meant "highly established knowledge".  Instead, the most it deserved to be called was empirical opinion.

Now I have become horrified to learn that ''more than 99% of scientific studies in journals did not follow the scientific method!''<ref>Bokhari, Allum (March 31, 2017). [www.breitbart.com/radio/2017/03/31/j-scott-armstrong-no-one-asks-researchers-scientific-method "J Scott Armstrong on Breitbart News Daily: 'No one asks' researchers to follow scientific method"]. Interview with Dr. J. Scott Armstrong and Dr. Kesten Green.  Breitbart/Radio website.</ref> I at least thought that the studies described above at least ''pretended'' to follow the scientific method and not that the now-so-called scientific community had abandoned the scientific method wholesale!

Now I have become horrified to learn that ''more than 99% of scientific studies in journals did not follow the scientific method!''<ref>Bokhari, Allum (March 31, 2017). [http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2017/03/31/j-scott-armstrong-no-one-asks-researchers-scientific-method "J Scott Armstrong on Breitbart News Daily: 'No one asks' researchers to follow scientific method"]. Interview with Dr. J. Scott Armstrong and Dr. Kesten Green.  Breitbart/Radio website.</ref> I at least thought that the studies described above at least ''pretended'' to follow the scientific method and not that the now-so-called scientific community had abandoned the scientific method wholesale!

Fortunately a big player in scientific journals, Public Library of Science One (PLOS) is trying to turn this around, but we ought to expect this library will face the same time difficulties they would face if they were to attempt to turn a large ship around.  

Fortunately a big player in scientific journals, Public Library of Science One (PLOS) is trying to turn this around, but we ought to expect this library will face the same time difficulties they would face if they were to attempt to turn a large ship around.