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    5 months ago

    Peer review isn’t typically included in the list of steps to the scientific method. Or, if it is, it’s a coda, not part of the main steps.

    Dictionary.com for example lists the commonly accepted steps, and then follows it up with “usually followed by peer review and publication.”

    https://www.dictionary.com/browse/scientific-method

    Note the “usually.”

    It’s also worth noting that there is no real “formalized” or “official” scientific method. Just some agreed upon commonalities. Any dozen science books will give you a dozen different graphs of the steps, and no two will be the same.