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Nature 454, x (10 July 2008) | doi:10.1038/7201xc; Published online 9 July 2008

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With the provocative title "The end of theory", an essay in Wired magazine on 23 June argues that, with the advent of huge datasets and Google-like algorithms, the scientific method has become obsolete.Inevitably, this view has stimulated responses in the scientific blogosphere, not least on Nature Network, where David Basanta of the University of Dundee, UK, points out in his blog (http://tinyurl.com/4vc8pz

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