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Here we're going to look at what makes science science.
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What is its distinguishing characteristic? and i would say that the biggest thing about science is that you have theory interacting with experiment.
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And there are many different ways you can say that.
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A second way you could talk about this interplay is hypothesis.
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And observations interplaying with observations.
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So it's a method to distinguish between different competing ideas for why something is happening the way it's happening.
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And that method includes finding a experiment or a test that you can do in order to distinguish between competing ideas.
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So another way of sort of stating the same thing is science is testable.
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And a lot of people don't like that, that you can exclude certain ideas based on the results of a test.
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You know, test anxiety maybe.
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But let me give an example of what we mean by testable.
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Okay, so we're just getting out of the covid -19 pandemic...