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I followed with great interest the discussion about descriptive versus hypothesis-driven research (A. Casadevall and F. C. Fang, Microbe, December 2008, p. 552– 553, and May 2009, p. 207; J. L. Slonczewski and E. S. Kaneshiro, Microbe, February 2009, p. 50). The authors talked about various ways of defining “descriptive research” and evaluated its value to science.
Christian T. K.‐H. Stadtländer (Sun,) studied this question.