{"id":31,"date":"2011-09-29T15:06:52","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T22:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neeleshgokhale.com\/wordpress\/?p=31"},"modified":"2011-09-29T15:06:52","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T22:06:52","slug":"how-science-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neeleshgokhale.com\/wordpress\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"How science works?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"How science works?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nap.edu\/openbook.php?record_id=13163&amp;page=37\">How science works?<\/a> David Goodstein<\/p>\n<p>Chief Justice Rehnquist, responding to the majority opinion in Daubert, was the \ufb01rst to express his uneasiness with the task assigned to federal judges as follows: \u201cI defer to no one in my con\ufb01dence in federal judges; but I am at a loss to know what is meant when it is said that the scienti\ufb01c status of a theory depends on its \u2018falsi\ufb01ability,\u2019 and I suspect some of them will be, too.\u201d 509 U.S. 579, 600 (1993)(Rehnquist, C.J., concurring in part and dissenting in part). His concern was then echoed by JudgeAlex Kozinski when the case was reconsidered by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit following remand by the Supreme Court. 43 F.3d 1311, 1316 (9th Cir. 1995) (\u201cOur responsibility,then, unless we badly misread the Supreme Court\u2019s opinion, is to resolve disputes among respected,well-credentialed scientists about matters squarely within their expertise, in areas where there is no scienti\ufb01c consensus as to what is and what is not \u2018good science,\u2019 and occasionally to reject such expert testimony because it was not \u2018derived by the scienti\ufb01c method.\u2019 Mindful of our position in the hierarchy of the federal judiciary, we take a deep breath and proceed with this heady task.\u201d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How science works? David Goodstein Chief Justice Rehnquist, responding to the majority opinion in Daubert, was the \ufb01rst to express his uneasiness with the task assigned to federal judges as follows: \u201cI defer to no one in my con\ufb01dence in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/neeleshgokhale.com\/wordpress\/?p=31\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neeleshgokhale.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neeleshgokhale.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neeleshgokhale.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neeleshgokhale.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neeleshgokhale.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/neeleshgokhale.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"http:\/\/neeleshgokhale.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neeleshgokhale.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neeleshgokhale.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neeleshgokhale.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}