1. Defining the experimental program
2. hypothesis as a framework for scientific projects : is critical rationalism critical?
3. Scientific settings in which a hypothesis is not practical
4. problem/question as a framework for scientific projects : an invitation for inductive reasoning
5. What constitutes an acceptable answer to an experimental question?
6. How experimental conclusions are used to represent reality : model building
7. Establishing a system for experimentation
8. Designing the experiment : definitions, time courses, and experimental repeats
9. Validating a model : the ability to predict the future
10. Designing the experimental project : a biological example
11. Experimental repetition : the process of acquiring data to model future outcomes
12. requirement for the negative control
13. requirement for the positive control
14. Method and reagent controls
17. Experimentalist controls : establishing a claim to an objective perspective
18. description of biological empiricism
