Simple, just because there isn't a better answer doesn't make the one you've got right, unless it's a multiple choice test.
Feel free to share with us why my comment is laughable. We have scientists protesting to have other scientists fired because they aren't convinced that a 1 degree F increase in the planet's temperature is proof of irreversible global warming. As far as I know, the increase in carbon in the atmosphere hasn't been proven to be a cause of global warming, a result of it, or irrelevant, but a whole lot of scientists are advocating reducing carbon emissions to the point of bankruptcy. I think that the Scientific Method has been thrown out the window in lieu of advocacy.
[No, it isn't. But I need a good laugh today, feel free to share with us your "reasons" for saying such a goofy thing.]
Simple, just because there isn't a better answer doesn't make the one you've got right, unless it's a multiple choice test.
He didn't say that it did. Once again, I must refer you to that "reading comprehension" thing.
And again, I must implore you to update your knowledge of science to beyond the "7th grade" level. No one is foolish enough to think that the lack of a better explanation makes the current one "right", as you wrongly mischaracterize it, but it does however make the current explanation (if it is clearly better than other existing alternatives) the one that is provisionally adopted (while keeping in mind its current shortcomings, if any) until a better one comes along. This is actually one of science's strengths, not one of its weaknesses.
Feel free to share with us why my comment is laughable.
Because the scientific method is alive and well, and continues to be so whether or not you think some poster on FreeRepublic might have misused it or not bothered to use it.
We have scientists protesting to have other scientists fired because they aren't convinced that a 1 degree F increase in the planet's temperature is proof of irreversible global warming. As far as I know, the increase in carbon in the atmosphere hasn't been proven to be a cause of global warming, a result of it, or irrelevant, but a whole lot of scientists are advocating reducing carbon emissions to the point of bankruptcy.
That still doesn't make the scientific method "dead", even if some people happen to have abused it. Is Capitalism "dead" because of Enron in your world?
I think that the Scientific Method has been thrown out the window in lieu of advocacy.
The fact that *some* people throw it out the window in lieu of advocacy hardly makes it "dead", it just means that not everyone uses it who should.
You might want to cut down on your hyperbole, and crank down your tendency to "drama queen" things. The fact that a *journalist* writes a few sentences you managed to misread doesn't justify your snotty attacks on "scientists" , and the fact that a few people engage in propaganda instead of real science doesn't mean that the "scientific method is dead".