And yet debate and progress continued. The scientific method doesn’t stop people being people, with all the associated flaws. It just sets a set of standards we

And yet debate and progress continued. The scientific method doesn’t stop people being people, with all the associated flaws. It just sets a set of standards we can measure against. String theory and expert systems came up short and we moved on, but when you have questions and genuinely don’t know the answers sure, we end up exploring some dead ends. Science is just a heuristics to telling when that’s happening, but it doesn’t stop it happening in the first place.