I agree more with the vision of Kuhn and Taleb, that it is not accident but structural. all blackswan, paradigm change, inconvenient anomalies, are treated the same, for reason that are clear and unavoidable.
today what happened with LENR is described perfectly by Kuhn. nothing else could have happened. science will not discover LENR, never. of course history will be rewritten, to claim the opposite. only solution to limit what is happening today, is to allow various islands of science, and not a huge continent of scientific community where science is settled. it was one strength of balkanized european zone in medieval period... and the big science spirit was the weakness of china. 2013/5/2 Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> > Edmund Storms <stor...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > > I think what people are saying: The concept of science works but the >> application frequently sucks! >> > > Well, also that the method is not perfect. It works sometimes but not > other times. It is like any other technique, or any other institution. > > Some people have excessive faith in the scientific method. This is like > assuming as a matter of faith that the Bank of America can never > accidentally debit your account for the wrong amount. > > The actual nuts and bolts of the scientific method vary from one field to > another. Experiments and replication are essential in physics, but they do > not exist in astronomy, natural science, or other observational sciences. > > An industrial chemist once told me that replication is not important in > his field. If you make it work, people take it for granted they can make it > work eventually. They accept the result at face value. Irreproducible > results are rare. Not unheard of, but rare. > > - Jed > >
