Authors :
Sujay Rao Mandavilli
Volume/Issue :
Volume 9 - 2024, Issue 2 - February
Google Scholar :
http://tinyurl.com/22x9x4cn
Scribd :
http://tinyurl.com/bdfvtn7n
DOI :
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10691863
Abstract :
The approach conceptualized, described and
advocated in this paper may appear to be highly
conventional and non-radical at the outset and at a
preliminary or a cursory glance, but it has plenty of
substance to offer to the healthy pursuit of rigour,
dispassionate objectivity, and wholesome and balanced
scientific activity. We do not aim or propose to set the cat
among the pigeons or create an unwarranted flutter that
could potentially rattle and alienate scholars, but instead
create in the medium and the long-term, a healthy, an
infallible and a dedicated enterprise devoted to the
constant grounds-up assessment and reassessment of
assumptions both explicit and implicit, methods,
methodologies, tools, techniques, hypotheses, processes,
procedures, frameworks and paradigms, including all
legacy and archaic methods, methodologies, tools,
techniques, hypotheses, processes, procedures,
frameworks and paradigms such that an intrinsic self-
correcting mechanism can be forged and materialized to
channelize science and scientific activity in a meaningful
and a productive long-term direction, and in the healthy
interests of science and society as a whole. Needless to
say, we expect this to lead to faster scientific progress as
well, and what we have always called “scientific progress
at the speed of light”.
The approach conceptualized, described and
advocated in this paper may appear to be highly
conventional and non-radical at the outset and at a
preliminary or a cursory glance, but it has plenty of
substance to offer to the healthy pursuit of rigour,
dispassionate objectivity, and wholesome and balanced
scientific activity. We do not aim or propose to set the cat
among the pigeons or create an unwarranted flutter that
could potentially rattle and alienate scholars, but instead
create in the medium and the long-term, a healthy, an
infallible and a dedicated enterprise devoted to the
constant grounds-up assessment and reassessment of
assumptions both explicit and implicit, methods,
methodologies, tools, techniques, hypotheses, processes,
procedures, frameworks and paradigms, including all
legacy and archaic methods, methodologies, tools,
techniques, hypotheses, processes, procedures,
frameworks and paradigms such that an intrinsic self-
correcting mechanism can be forged and materialized to
channelize science and scientific activity in a meaningful
and a productive long-term direction, and in the healthy
interests of science and society as a whole. Needless to
say, we expect this to lead to faster scientific progress as
well, and what we have always called “scientific progress
at the speed of light”.
