Pete Fowler;372123 Wrote: > He's demanding other people toe the line and conform to his belief in > science as the ultimate arbiter of what is valid and what is snake oil.
For me the problem is that it's a very narrow view of science, based on the current academic system where someone puts up a piece of research and everyone else tries to knock it down or reproduce it. That's fine if there's lots of people willing to invest time and money to conduct ever more complex experiments to eliminate errors in the previous experiments (which there always are), but that just isn't going to happen in a hobby field. In the pioneering days of science, people tried out experiments on/for themselves and observed the results, and human knowledge progressed as a result. -- Patrick Dixon www.at-tunes.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Patrick Dixon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=90 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56425 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
