Shane Mage wrote: > If you're a "scientist" (especially an astronomer) and therefore used to > finding "evidence that refutes your models" with every new set of data that > arrives, you never "sniff your nose" at the data. Instead you invent new, > inherently unobservable, entities like "dark matter," "black holes," > "gravitational lensing," "bigh bang," "dark attractors," "epicycles," "dark > energy," etc.that can "explain" all the inconvenient experimental results > that you want to explain away.
good scientists know that such things as "dark matter" are speculations or hypotheses and then try to test them. -- Jim Devine / "Nobody told me there'd be days like these / Strange days indeed -- most peculiar, mama." -- JL. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
