(May 8, 2012 at 5:10 pm)Tobie Wrote: You think anyone in the scientific world makes claims without evidence? They have heaps, otherwise they wouldn't think about publishing anything.
I don't see why you would have a problem with accepting things with no evidence, anyway.
Well... it does happen. And when it does, they get reamed in peer review. Which is part of why the scientific peer review process is so important, and why peer-reviewed sources carry weight (*).
(*) To those of us interested in discerning knowledge from bullshit.