Where can I find a website or a link to a official document that explains the rules and conduct of Science?
I’m writing a paper for class and I need to cite any official document or official set of rules for scientists to follow, in general. For a example, it would need to explain how science is "self correcting" and that a "theory" is the highest honor or placement an idea can be given.
So no documents that explains how hypothesis need to be made, or a general process on how theories are examined and debated over? This just something every scientist in every field just knows how to do from word of mouth?
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If you mean the "Scientific Method" try searching for the citation of Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia. The underlying "rule" for scientific investigation relies on the application of
the explicit statement of a problem
the testing of it by experimentation
the interpretation of the results
This has been done by thinking men/women since prehistoric times. Newton and others before him attempted to codify it. It is something commonly accepted by all scientists today and no one "document" or website controls us.
If you mean a code of ethics, just about every scientific organization has one for its members. These all include in their "code" how scientists should behave–like, no cheating, no plagarizing, following the scientific method of inquiry, etc. Search for <science conduct> and you’ll find links to some of these "codes."
There is no such thing.
No scientist would allow the government to dictate how he does his job. That is one of the reasons scientists left Nazi Germany for the US.
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Scientific theories are mostly peer-review processes. You come up with a good theory, you publish it in a scientific journal completed with any fact or proof supporting your theory, then other scientists will assess it and consider its merit based on their knowledge. If they find it plausible then they will attempt to work out something along that theory and publish their own papers, calling it YOUR theory. That’s how it usually goes.