Hare Krishna

[Cyberman]

The theories are interesting, of course. But I'd really be more interested in something you can verify the way you can verify claims about medical powders. Can science do that? Because I've been under the impression (maybe mistaken!) that it couldn't.

You seem to be under the impression that a theory is a guess. If you couldn't verify, falsify, and reproduce the contents of a theory it would not be a theory.

If s/he really is under this impression, then either s/he has memory problems (like myself) or there's something else going on, not necessarily to do with honesty. This makes twice now that s/he has been briefed as to what scientific theories actually are, the first instance s/he actually acknowledged and thanked me for the clarification. So there's really no excuse on that level.

(Edited to fix quote attribution.)