The Baconian method is the investigative method developed by Sir Francis Bacon, one of the founders of modern science, and thus a first formulation of a modern scientific method. The method was put ...

Science is in the midst of a data crisis. Last year, there were more than 1.2 million new papers published in the biomedical sciences alone, bringing the total number of peer-reviewed biomedical ...

Title page for Novum organum scientiarum, 1645, by Francis Bacon (1561-1626) and Portrait of Francis Bacon | Left: Francis Bacon/Houghton Library /Wikimedia Commons and Right: Jacobus ...

AMONG the many stimulating ideas elaborated by Sir Peter Medawar in his Presidential Address 1 to Section D of the British Association, for the Advancement of Science is the claim that the foundation ...