If Dr. Larry is going to opine on the philosophy of science, he should at least read the seminal work on that matter, namely The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn.
BTW, Dr. Larry, they locked up Galileo for denying what the 99% consensus of existing scientists had to say about the fundamental settled science of astronomy, but the earth continued to rotate around the sun anyway.
BTW, a few of the other scientists who correctly bucked the 99% consensus were, Louis Pasteur, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Alfred Wegener, Antoine Lavoisier, and Robin Warren and Barry J. Marshall. Fortunately, Dr. Larry wasnt in charge of jailing scientific heretics during those times, or otherwise we would be living in a far different and a far
poorer world than today.
we might well still be living in caves.. is “Dr’ Larry had held sway back in the shadowy distant past.