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Re: Scientific Method
Posted by:
SJAvato (IP Logged)
Date: July 18, 2022 01:36PM
With regard to process of elimination in science; consider a problem like SARS or COVID - something is killing people and a sample is sent to have genetic sequencing done to figure out what might be making people sick. Is it a virus? A bacteria? Some fungus or parasite? (There is no evidence to support any of these hypotheses, yet we can form them anyway...Could it be a virus? Is it, maybe, a bacteria?) The sample is thrown into a gene sequencer - the human gene sequences are eliminated (the human genome has been sequenced so, really smart people can see that "these" sequences are human and can be eliminated as "normal") What is left is something else. Eliminating known bacterial genome sequences. Eliminating known fungi and protozoa sequences and comparing what is left to known virus sequences may allow investigators to narrow the pathogen to a viral source. (Further tests can be done to confirm that hypothesis.) To arrive at that point, did they not go through a "Process of Elimination"? Or was what they did not science?