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Your description is good, but it starts to look a lot more like a scientific culture at that point.
There's really no clear overarching method that links a theoretical physicist, an epidemiologist, a research chemist, a neurologist, and a geologist.
It's more like you say - a culture dedicated to the notion that you gain a clearer, more reliable and useful description of things through open assent tied to reproducible evidence, and the careful removal of intentions from the process of description.
If OP's interested in a thought-provoking, fairly troll-worthy, look at the various... meta-techniques (?) used in science - say, practical abstractions like equations and scale models, what's common between them and why they're so powerful, etc., then Bruno Latour's Science in Action is a different, wacky, but not pretentious and dense, read.
Actually, rhetoric of science is a rather burgeoning field. Check out Alan Gross's The Rhetoric of Science and Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
Also, honorable mentions for Latour's Science in Action and Sontag's Illness as Metaphor,
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