Quote:Actually, if something is in principle testable and falsifiable, then it doesn't need to mental masturbation. There is nothing wrong with advancing a conjecture,
Where did I say scientists don't or should not guess? I said don't call scientific method a philosophy.
Scientists are people, scientific method is a tool. Don't confuse the person with the tool the person uses.
Philosophy is dead. The "guessing" that scientist do is not based on philosophy, it is based on the tool of method.
The history of thought back then was limited and most of the time wrong, but philosophy has been surpassed and replaced by modern tools.
Again, would be like rubbing sticks together mentally when you have a lighter.
