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Dr. Halwes says “Many scientists (or would-be scientists) have been trained to lie about their work in order to get it published." He backs this statement by using an exert from __Science Made Stupid__ by Tom Well. The exert states that in the inductive version of the scientific method the scientist is trained to alter data to fit the hypothesis. In the deductive version they scientist would revise the hypothesis to fit the data. I agree with the following statement that Dr Halves says after that "hopefully, the "deductive" approach, which at least doesn't involve falsifying evidence. I don’t think that the scientists should be allowed to change what their experiments had shown and they should also not be told to do this. The whole thing is to make the scientific method look bad when it isn’t always the worst possible thing to use. These scientists were told to change the way they perform experiments which isn’t necessarily the way it would be used. Normally someone should try doing the experiment again till they come up with the right data or disprove what they thought would be right in the first place. It is better to use in a high school class then later because the problems being solved have already been solved by someone else.

Dr. Halwes also states that there are many other ways to gain scientific knowledge than only using the scientific method. I agree with him on this because like he states some things aren’t always set up in an order, and there isn’t always a hypothesis involved. This happens many different ways including observation and experiments. Scientific knowledge usually isn’t found by using a specific method anyway, because each scientist can have their own way to research a topic or find new theories. Next Dr. Halwes states that scientists don’t use any special method; he says "what is required for scientific progress is mainly ordinary curiosity, ordinary awareness, ordinary learning, ordinary reasoning, and fairly ordinary communication." This statement is also interesting, because the older scientists had no special method they just worked hard to learn what they wanted.