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RE: The Edge Of Reason: How Science Is Made
I think that I have missed the full debate... I however 100% agree with @fredrikaa. The currently admitted paradigms may evolve with time (they always had). The currently admitted paradigms explain all observations so far, potentially with some exceptions. This is how new theories or extensions of the existing ones are built in, and that they will eventually become standard. However, one important point is that new theories must do as well as the older ones to explain data. Somehow, they must reproduce the old theories (that work so well, except the few exceptions), to explain data. This last point is often missed by people pushing for 'their super duper theory that tells that everyone was wrong so far'.
Indeed, this is probably missed 99.9% of the time... :-(
Really cool that you're the founder of Steem Stem by the way, I don't think I realised that. Well done for doing your bit for logic, reason and science on the blockchain! :-)
Cg
Even more than 99.9%... And this is an argument that alternative theorists (let's call them that way) in fact totally ignore for a reason I cannot get. They instead invoke the 'mainstream scientists are all against me' drama :(