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Rumor around here is that hypothesis testing as "the scientific method"
originated with the biologists, partly as a way to move them away from
being
nothing more than taxonomists. In order for biology to gain the
scientific
stature of chemistry and physics they needed to do more experiments,
create
more theories, and do more experiments to substantiate the theories.
This certainly jibes with what I have observed in the literature.
Biologists do seem to embrace it more.