The first is the population-based nature of genetic epidemiology, which, together with shared methodological approaches, is one of its key links with epidemiology.
They were instrumental in converting the centuries-old craft of art restoration into a profession based on scientific research, the use of modern technology and adherence to shared methodological standards.
We conclude by arguing for shared methodological and design frameworks for investigating unique and common characteristics to advance a unified and strong voice for CBT in a widening, increasingly multimodal and interdisciplinary, intervention science.
These tools exemplify a concerted research agenda, shared methodological principles and models for epilepsy self-management, and a communal knowledge base for implementing e-Health to improve quality of life for people with epilepsy.
It sits badly with broadly shared methodological insights (e.g., Popper 1934/1956), according to which scientific theory must be open to revision at all times (cf. Mayo 1996).
When Tommaso Campanella (1568 1639) stated that he learned more from the anatomy of an ant or an herb than from any book ever written, he was simply expressing in a beautiful and poetic form a shared methodological creed.
