Earth, Our Environment - Class Notes

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Science and Peer Review

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In our society, doing science involves a few more steps that are often skipped by those pushing pseudoscience. Most important of these is peer review. Without peer review, the quality of research is untested. A "road map" for performing modern University research is:

• Acquire background knowledge and necessary skills.

Such knowledge must include a study of previous observations in your particular subject of interest, and perhaps the skills to collect new observations.

• Formulate a research idea.
• Secure funding for the investigation

Before you get funding, your peers evaluate your idea.

• Perform the investigation.
• Publish the results.

Again, here you must undergo peer review.

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