Reply #11: There's far more that dumb people haven't figured out yet.

[caseymoz]

But they will still mislead you about it. When they get something right, it doesn't mean they're as good as scientists, it means they were lucky. It takes no work or discipline to pull a notion out of thin air and simple luck says that something will happen at the same time. A lottery winner has no right to call his or her "method" of picking numbers any better than anyone elses. Coincidence is not causality, and that's old, long demonstrated, logic, not science that says that.

Science is a method. People applying the method are fallible. People who take guesses and are committed to believing them due to one spectacular result are-- far more fallible. What some scientist once said about PMS has nothing to do with it.

BTW, it took Gallileo hundreds of experiments dropping metal balls and sliding them down ramps until he demonstrated how gravity actually worked. And he documented all of them. Gravity had always been around. Anybody might have "guessed" that two objects of the same weight fell at the rate and have been right. It still wouldn't have been as good as scientifically proving it. Why? Because there was a far better chance that they would have guessed wrong. As it was, they guessed wrong about it for thousands of years.