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Originally Posted by kennyc
On occasion individual scientists can be the worst! But in the end the community corrects. The body of science is not something that is made up from opinion polls or viewpoint. It it made of of measurable, repeatable replicable facts.
 Something is happening, something bad is happening, we may not know exactly why but that should be only more reason to find out and do what we can to make it better. If we wait til the 25th century, it may not come.
And that's okay too I guess because 99% of all species that every lived are now extinct.
We'll just let mother Earth start over and try again. I expect I'll be long gone in even one more century (unless of course Ray is right). |
That is the point I keep trying to point out. Measurable, yes. Repeatable and replicable, no! We don't have another planet for a control, and we can't compare just one variable and keep the other ones constant. We don't even know what all the other variables are. And we can't do 50 or 100 experiments and compare them to do statistical averages.
In any other scientific endevour, this lack of rigor would have any theory based on this limited of data as, "intriguing, but not testable. Let us know when you figure out how to test it.". In Global Warming, it's "quick, let's restructure the world economy, no matter how many people starve, because it has to be right."
(As for my lack of understanding of the scientific method...Degree in Micro/Molecular Biology, minor in Zoology, minor in Chemistry, long-time fossil collector, which requires a good knowledge of stratigraphy and general geology, hobby of studying quantum physics (as best I can), and three decades of computer programming, which is doing complex logic and finding flaws in the same. I think I know my way around the course...)