Re: [Pen-l] Jared Diamond and the New Yorker, part 2

[Doyle Saylor <doylesaylor@xxxxxxx>]

Greetings Economists,
All well and good to cite the method.  However, let's take cosmology  
as a good example.  String theory is a dominate academic view of the  
smallest events.  Proving string theory is difficult.  There are many  
competing views of the physics at the quantum level.  How does one  
remove the faith based element that drives a researcher in thrall to  
string theory?
Doyle
On May 8, 2009, at 8:36 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:

> I dunno, there is this thing called the scientific method, involving  
> hypothesis testing and reproducibility and all that. It can't answer  
> all questions, but it sure can answer a lot of them.

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