Necessary and Sufficient Conditions For Genuine Scientific Research - Response To Greeno

Some blog followers might be interested in a recent post “Necessary and Sufficient Conditions For Genuine Scientific Research - Response To Greeno” [Hake (2012)]. The abstract reads:

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ABSTRACT: In response to “Math Education Research Doesn't Exist? Response to Schremmer” [Hake (2012a) at http://bit.ly/U7dJi3, Clyde Greeno at http://bit.ly/RW0fFF wrote that his statement that the six principles which, according to Scientific Research in Education at http://bit.ly/VjrQaV, p. 2: “underlie all scientific inquiry (including educational research)” are “glibly superficial and badly unknowing about the nature of science” was simply an observation that those six principles in no way suffice as criteria (i.e., are both necessary and sufficient) for distinguishing scientific from non-scientific educational research.

Greeno continued “Tragically, much of educational research now can use the NRC report as a basis for so polluting the name of ‘scientific educational research’ that distinguishing genuine scientific research from the rest will be a very cumbersome task.”

I wonder if Greeno would consider assisting the math community in “distinguishing genuine scientific research from the rest” by setting forth his own necessary and sufficient conditions for “genuine scientific research”?

BTW, I attempted to address the two crucial questions: (a) “Can Education Research Be ‘Scientific’?” and (b) “What's ‘Scientific’?” in a 75 kB post “Can Education Research Be ‘Scientific’? What’s ‘Scientific’?” [Hake (2012b)] at http://bit.ly/Ujaogk containing over 100 references and over 180 hot-linked URL’s, but, as far as I know, no substantive responses were forthcoming.
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Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
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Hake, R.R. 2012. “Necessary and Sufficient Conditions For Genuine Scientific Research - Response To Greeno” online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at http://bit.ly/Qp3H0w. Post of 7 Nov 2012 13:49:33-0800 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post are being transmitted to several discussion lists.