(September 12, 2014 at 11:09 am)sswhateverlove Wrote: Tricky and a quite confusing, yes. I don't claim to have answers on how to detect and control for these potential variables, nor do I assume there will be any answers to that in the very immediate future. Perhaps someday...
I do not agree, however that it's pointless to wonder.
Every scientific experiment to test a theory is also testing for unknown factors - that is the nature of testing a theory. Every scientist wonders - that is the nature of science.
That is how we have discovered what we have. You are trying to make something mysterious out of something that is well understood.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
