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You cannot prove the results of decades of physics and mathematical debate wrong with a few paragraphs of emotional arguments about dogma or some cheap mockery

• oldandtired 8y ago
  See my comments above. When it comes down to it, scientists of all ilks are people and are just as prone to every failing of people anywhere. I enjoy science fiction in its many forms, irrespective if it is based on consensus models or not. But I do get somewhat concerned when freedom of investigation is curtailed due to those investigations not matching up to the consensus views. If someone wants to devote themselves to a particular field and do it logically and systematically designing experiments and theories based on their results, then why not let them without treating them as idiots, cranks and pariahs. It is their time and effort and if they can make a case for funding, then let them have the funding. What is more important? Upholding the consensus view or increasing our understanding of the universe around us? Unless we test different models and theories, we have no idea whether or not our consensus models and theories are better or worse in giving us a practical basis for understanding the universe around us.