> it's kind of hard to set up scientific methodology to prove things Why would you? It works, it's a teachable method. To my mind, the inquiry doesn't have to

> it's kind of hard to set up scientific methodology to prove things Why would you? It works, it's a teachable method. To my mind, the inquiry doesn't have to progress far beyond that. Unless perhaps you value doing things solely for knowledge, which is something academia stopped doing ages ago (and arguably never really did).