(12-10-2018, 08:46 PM)PaulP link Wrote:Why, after decades of frankly fruitless research, do we not look at some other theories ?
Firstly, they are not fruitless, you deeming them fruitless because you do not agree or do not understand is not creating a fact, your have however created a Trumpism.
Secondly, science explores many things, only the ones of substance gain traction, the scientific method determines how you conduct that exploration and discards the hypothesis that fail to match observation.
So your apparent love of MOND is truly fruitless, that's flogging a dead horse, but we don't ban people from investigating it as they have freedom to choose.
You see that the difference between faith and science, in science once your wrong it's over, there is no forgiveness in the scientific method you don't get a second chance if your theory or hypothesis doesn't fit reality. But we won't stake you out for being wrong, we'll just call it cute!
Your correlation of revisions to observations or data with some fudging of the books is not right, the theories or hypothesis that stand the test of that revision are the ones and the only ones that survive corrections and revisions, MOND didn't!
Unlike a religion we can't use divine intervention to cover a boo boo, you know like the Spanish Inquisition, science has no father confessor offering forgiveness for a monumental feck up!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"

