Separating scientists from their beliefs is vitally important

Robert Lea
8 min readJul 30, 2018

It’s very likely that if you’ve come to this post from the main science page of ‘Medium’ or from a search for science or from a link shared in a social media group. Thus, there’s also a fair chance that you already have a good grasp on what the scientific method is.

It’s heartening to see that more and more people seem to be embracing the scientific method and the results its use have yielded. The popularisation of the scientific method has some drawbacks, but its overwhelming benefit is there is a growing minority of people…

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Robert Lea

Freelance science journalist. BSc Physics. Space. Astronomy. Astrophysics. Quantum Physics. SciComm. ABSW member. WCSJ Fellow 2019. IOP Fellow.