The following is a step in the scientific method that you may have heard: “Hypotheses become theories which become laws.” What is wrong with this statement? Laws are generalizations, principles, or patterns, while theories explain the generalizations. There is nothing wrong with this statement; hypotheses do become laws after we test them and collect evidence to prove them correct. The scientific method is a fake system that has no relation to the real world. Hypotheses can skip the theory part and go straight to becoming laws with good experiments. Question 8