porges@inmet.UUCP (07/26/83)
#R:fortune:-128200:inmet:4000008:000:356 inmet!porges Jul 22 12:29:00 1983 How is the "water is an intoxicant" example not a good example of scientific method? Because after you try scotch-and-water, bourbon-and-water, gin-and-water, you do not then CONCLUDE "water is an intoxicant" -- you make that a hypothesis. Then, obviously, you test it with just water. And that is why this criticism of scientific method is incorrect.
ecn-ec:ecn-pc:ecn-ed:vu@pur-ee.UUCP (07/29/83)
This is not the only one. Recently ( sometime last June ), TIME magazine reviews a book written by some philosopher claiming that Einstein's Relativity has a bad impact on society because it (Relativity) asserts that Physics is dependent of point of view !! And of course, since it was written by a Humanities major and reviewed by another Humanities major, nobody ever realized that one of the two basic assumption of Relativity is that "the laws of Physics are the same in all inertial frame". How much longer will Americans read such articles and believe that it IS science ? And imagine that they will grow up and become LL D's and MBA's; what will happen to America THEN ? Hao-Nhien Vu pur-ee!vu