bluejay writes:
It surprises me that you turn on the scientific process this way, because it seems like, in any other instance, you would wholeheartedly support the methodologies that you disdain when scientists do it.
I had been thinking about a courtroom analogy when I read your remark.
If archaeologist, an innocent man, were facing trial in a court of law, he would demand the most exacting standards of evidence and inference.
A prosecutor who sneered at the lack of condemnatory evidence (or the exculpatory evidence) because "we all know" archaeologist is guilty would embody archy's attitude toward science.
The ACLU defense attorney who saves his innocent butt by exposing the prosecutor's fraud would be his new best friend, not a co-conspirator with the prosecutor because she is also an officer of the court.
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