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A pataphysical approach to the scientific method: applying the method to objects that cannot be observed, to hypotheses that cannot be tested, or to experiments that cannot be performed. For example, designing a double‑blind trial for the efficacy of prayer, or a controlled study of the effects of a colour that doesn’t exist. Scientific method pataphysics highlights the method’s dependence on a world that cooperates, and it imagines what the method would look like in worlds that do not.
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