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==History==

''See Also: [[History of Science]]''

The development of the scientific method is indivisible from the development of science itself.

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The question of how [[science]] operates has importance well beyond scientific circles or the academic community. In the judicial system and in public policy controversies, for example, a study's deviation from ''accepted scientific practice'' is grounds for rejecting it as "[[junk science]]" or [[pseudoscience]].

==The scientific method== The scientific method's essential elements are [[iteration]]s and [[recursion]]s of the following four steps:

# [[#Characterization|Characterization]]