Not even close enough to be wrong. Your Ask Seek Knock is a self reinforcing loop, forcing you to repeat the process until you can delude yourself that you've reached the conclusion you presupposed before you started. The Scientific Method is a mechanism for testing your hypothesis literally to failure point and then evaluating whatever survives to determine if it represents reality, or else requires modifying or even abandoning.
The peer review stage is a vital part of the process. It serves to correct errors and bias by having independent observers replicate your methods, with the aim of disproving your conclusions. It is not a mass circle jerk where everyone sits around confirming each other's delusions.
The peer review stage is a vital part of the process. It serves to correct errors and bias by having independent observers replicate your methods, with the aim of disproving your conclusions. It is not a mass circle jerk where everyone sits around confirming each other's delusions.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
