When you are troubled, you are wise to make use of the scientific method. How? It's really quite easy: Formulate a question. Make a falsifiable hypotheses. Predict an outcome. Test your hypothesis. Analyze the results. It's quite easy, though it does require a determination and objectivity that fly in the face of the tightly wound …
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Pathological Disbelief and Intellectual Terror
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..." ~ Isaac Asimov One of the great obstacles to progress in scientific understanding was well described by Nobel Prize-winning Cambridge emeritus professor Brian Josephson as "pathological disbelief." Josephson used the term …
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Gregory Hake 