(December 3, 2014 at 3:31 pm)Drich Wrote: Be honest with yourself and acknoweledge that It all boils down to you pointing to a guy or a group of people who you believe to be credible because they are smarter than you, and what they think.You know, I'll grant you that a lot of times we take, and 'trust', what a certain person or group says at face value.
But, there are two parts to that. Firstly, it's likely they have a track record of being right, making it easier to accept what they say.
And secondly, and one of THE best things about science, is that we don't have to take at face value anything anyone says.
You can independently verify what they claim.....
Have others tried their work? Did they verify or disprove the original work? Do other fields or data support their idea? Is there concordance? Is there convergence? Are there predictions based on it? Is there a working model built off of it? Is there real world applications derived from it?
