Science & Nature

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AI Consensus Ranking

  1. #1Germ Theory of Disease86.2
  2. #2falsifiability84.3
  3. #3The scientific method75.6
  4. #4Empiricism65.0
  5. #5Quantum Mechanics62.4
  6. #6Evolution by natural selection55.1
  7. #7Gravity49.5
  8. #8Vaccination48.9
  9. #9relativity46.4
  10. #10Atomic Theory44.8
  11. #11Energy and conservation44.7
  12. #12Peer review and criticism44.0
  13. #13DNA43.7
  14. #14Louis Pasteur42.5
  15. #15Newton’s Laws of Motion and Universal Gravitation42.2
  16. #16Digital Systems and Networks40.7
  17. #17The Copernican Principle40.5
  18. #18electromagnetism39.6
  19. #19Antibiotics (Penicillin)36.4
  20. #20Structure of DNA36.3
  21. #21correlation vs. causation35.8
  22. #22Laws of thermodynamics and entropy35.7
  23. #23Hypothesis and testing35.3
  24. #24Theories33.2
  25. #25Heliocentrism31.6
  26. #26Science as a distinctive method of inquiry31.2
  27. #27Electricity30.7
  28. #28Alexander Fleming30.4
  29. #29Cause and effect30.0
  30. #30Hygiene30.0
  31. #31Antibiotics29.6
  32. #32Probability and uncertainty27.7
  33. #33Earth in motion27.2
  34. #34Systematic experimentation25.3
  35. #35sciencenews.org25.0
  36. #36Experimental Evidence as Arbiter25.0
  37. #37Smallpox vaccine24.5
  38. #38Cosmology and the Big Bang24.4
  39. #39Naturalism23.8
  40. #40Newton23.4
  41. #41Observation and measurement23.1
  42. #42Testability23.1
  43. #43Uniformity of nature21.9
  44. #44Copernicus21.2
  45. #45Koch21.2
  46. #46Theory building and revision21.2
  47. #47Edward Jenner20.3
  48. #48Albert Einstein20.1
  49. #49theory of general relativity20.0
  50. #50plate tectonics19.9

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