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Yes, I agree that we are doing more than science here, we are doing meta-science. By that I mean, science knows how to test whether or not a hypothesis is correct, but it doesn't know how to test the likelihood of a hypothesis being correct. There simply is no science for that, it's more like intuit...

I agree with those points, but I also point out that it might be premature to count Einstein wrong. There have been plenty of cases in history where the community had to make a choice of which way to go, and pretty much everyone went one way, except for one brilliant maverick who went the other-- an...

Hello all, it seems the primary thrust of this thread involves two related claims that are meeting with a skeptical welcome: 1) science should be treated as an inclusional, rather than exclusional, enterprise, on the grounds that it is hard to know what strange-sounding ideas might eventually prove ...