The Stuff You Should Know Doin’ Science Playlist: How the Scientific Method Works
Stuff You Should Know
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🗓️ 19 June 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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It evolved over centuries to become the gold standard for conducting scientific inquiry. Yet many people - including some scientists - don't fully understand it. Learn about the basis of how we explore our world in this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.4 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:06.5 | We're up to, I think, number five on the list of our science playlist. |
| 0:10.3 | And this is a good one, things we believe before the scientific method. |
| 0:14.1 | I remember really enjoying this one. |
| 0:15.5 | So I hope you dive in right now. |
| 0:19.4 | Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:29.0 | Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's here, too, and this is |
| 0:33.6 | Stuff You Should Know, the Let's Get Jiggy with Science Edition. |
| 0:40.8 | You know you're about to get jiggie, Chuck. |
| 0:43.8 | With it? |
| 0:44.8 | Yeah, with it. |
| 0:45.8 | And it is this episode about what people believe before the scientific method. |
| 0:52.3 | Yeah, you know, we have a pretty good episode on the scientific method. |
| 0:55.6 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:56.2 | And we have talked about some of this stuff here and there throughout the years, |
| 1:01.1 | like, you know, early science, and it's easy to make fun of that stuff. |
| 1:05.3 | Right. |
| 1:05.8 | But we are here not to make fun of it. |
| 1:08.8 | And not necessarily to defend it, but to just put it into perspective of where these people were at the time. |
| 1:16.9 | And you can see how a lot of this stuff made sense at the time. |
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