Concrescence, Causality, Experimental Method

Whether or not he intends it, Whitehead's system helps explicate one of the essential features of Experimental Method.  For, he conceives all novelty to be a Concrescence of the entire given Universe, the parts of which varying in degrees of relevance to the final moment.  Accordingly, Cause and Effect are products of a two-fold retrospective analysis of a Concrescence--an Effect is the final phase, isolated from what precedes it, and its Cause is the most relevant of those earlier phases.  It is easy to confirm that this concept has greater fidelity to actual experience than do the abstractions that are typically presented in Philosophy or Physics, though less so in Chemistry.  Thus, the model defines part of the task of Experiment--the determination of a Cause by segregating a factor in a Concrescence, via controls of other variable factors.  So, if these controls, essential to the success of determining a Cause, e. g. of a disease, are what Whitehead characterizes as "cooking the facts", he underappreciates the grounding that his system provides for the Experimental Method.