--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But Einstein's ideas evolved out of the very science that later > embraced them and much later found evidence for them. > > The SV mythology does not arise from such an evolution. Scientists > do not necessarily want to take any old pie in the sky explanation > for how things work and test it rigorously.
Not just *any* old pie in the sky explanation, certainly. But a given scientist may have what he or she thinks is a compelling insight that other scientists find absurd. It's then up to the scientist who had the insight to shape it into a testable hypothesis and run some experiments. If the studies' methodology is tight and the data support the hypothesis, then, no matter how ridiculous the hypothesis may seem to other scientists, the onus is on them to replicate the first scientist's studies; if they come up with the same results, and can't find an alternative explanation for the data, they pretty much have to begin to consider the first scientist's hypothesis seriously. So it's not "any old pie in the sky explanation," but it IS "any explanation, pie in the sky or not, that has some good data to support it." ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
