Date:   3/2/2010 4:34:04 AM ( 14 y ago)
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 The scientific method is limited in that funded studies have a profit motive behind them and most studies are based upon accepted "scientific" truths, which will not be true tomorrow.

In other words, it has the same fundamental issues/problems people do... societal/professional peer pressures... Sending us down the wrong paths... as it did with "germ theory".

Germ theory has never been proven wrong, only claimed wrong. But this brings up the point again about what you mentioned earlier about changing science. How does science change? By testing hypotheses and proving or disproving them, not by reading someone's claim that a theory is wrong on the Internet somewhere.

So what are people supposed to take as evidence? Unsubstantiated claims? Or research that has been verified by other researchers? Not all research or researchers are corrupt or influenced by financial incentives. And as I pointed out research gets verified or disproven by other researchers. This is why we see so many studies on the same subject. So what I am I going to follow? Verified research until proven otherwise? Or someone's unsubstantiated claims that they decided to write about in a book or on the Internet? Keep in mind that if the claim is unsubstantiated with real evidence then it is hypothesis, otherwise known as an educated guess.

You know I could write a book claiming cancer is from dehydration and that you can cure it by chewing on Double Bubble chewing gum while hopping on one foot to create a negative electron spin in the atoms thereby alkalinizing the inside of the cell and there are people who will buy it because I threw some scientific sounding terms in there. Yet it still be a complete load of crap. Unfortunately this tactic of using scientific sounding terms to baffle people with BS is way to common in the alternative field. This is why I also encourage people to do their homework and verify what is being said, even the stuff I post.

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