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Thanks for your contributions on biology. As Jfdwolff noted on Talk:Gene regulation, we need more contributors with biological knowledge. Since I see you are with the Institute for Systems Biology, you might be interested in helping improve the systems biology entry. Cheers --Lexor|Talk 10:49, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Thanks, guys, I hope that I can make some reasonable contributions. I think the wikipedia project is incredibly important and I have been surprised at the quality of the entries I have seen so far. Wikipedia has actually move google down a notch for searches on things I neeed to know about. Srlasky 02:58, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
You keep saying things like: "Science is done by showing a preponderence of evidence for a given hypothesis, not by scientist voting on a question." These are completely true of course, that this is how science SHOULD be done. The usage of the term consensus science is not to support doing science by vote, but is actually used to criticize attempts to perform science by vote, with the point being that science should be based on evidence, and conclusions should be based on the conclusivity of that evidence. I'm just slightly confused because you seem to be agreeing with the usage of the term "consensus science", but yet calling for its deletion. — Cortonin | Talk 13:08, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I agree that consensus science should certainly be mentioned within scientific method. In fact, the concept of consensus itself is notably absent from discussion on that page. While it is not officially an element of the textbook "scientific method", the role that consensus DOES play needs to be acknowledged, in particular for fields for which it assumes a dominant role over textbook elements of the scientific method. However, the scientific method article is rather full, and because consensus science is a topic which is only related to scientific method and not a proper subset of it, it should also have its own article. — Cortonin | Talk 05:31, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)