Listening summary and commentary. Effectiveness of speaker's arguments

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Teman Cooke, a Ph.D holder in theoretical physics criticizes the process of scientific method in his Ted Talk Show presentation titled, “The Scientific Method is Crap.” Cooke diatribes the formula approach of scientific methods applied in research studies by asserting that it purely prompts researchers to focus on arriving at conclusion only. The speaker supported his argument by mentioning that he noticed a phenomenon while teaching a science class in a middle school, whereby students were only hanging up on finding the answers without tracking them through thinking (Cooke, 2013). According to the speaker, the conventional approach of the scientific method, which entails asking questions, carrying out background reviews, formulating a hypothesis, conducting experiments, analyzing data, and drawing up of the conclusion is insufficient.
Cooke went on saying that the scientific method is a problem because it basically outlines lists of steps that fail to capture what many scientists do. The steps are inappropriate since it focuses on collecting observations rather than gathering defined procedures (Cooke, 2013). The speaker elucidates that the procedure is improper as it leads researches to focus on the collected data to measure the accuracy of their hypothesis, which might be correct in case more data comes in afterward. For these reasons, Cooke views the perception of science as a “once and done” procedure, and it is misleading. Instead, the speaker proposes an alternative way of thinking that is flexible and robust and takes into consideration the variation of data collection in future before drawing the final conclusion.
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The speaker’s arguments are effective because he presents them with confidence and eloquence, which convinces the audience that he knows what he is talking about. Actually, the speaker appears to know both sides of the argume...