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From Sept 1999 American Journal of Physics:
The following statement was originally drafted by the Panel on Public
Affairs (POPA) of the American Physical Society, in an attempt to meet
the perceived need for a very sort statement that would differentiate
science from pseudoscience. This statement has been endorsed as a
proposal to other scientific societies by the Council of the American
Physical Society, and was endorsed by the Executive Board of the
American Association of Physics Teachers at its meeting in Atlanta, 20
March 1999.
Science is the systematic enterprise of gathering knowledge about the
world and organizing and condensing that knowledge into testable laws
and theories.
The success and credibility of science is anchored in the willingness
of scientists to:
(1) expose their ideas and results to independent testing and
replication by other scientists; this requires the complete and open
exchange of data, procedures, and materials;
(2) abandon or modify accepted conclusions when confronted with more
complete or reliable experimental evidence.
Adherence to these principles provides a mechanism for
self-correction that is the foundation of the credibility of science.