The Scientific Method has been rarely used in the last 60 years in high quality, peer reviewed, Scientific Journals.
What is lacking in these Journals, and in the article that you posted here is OBJECTIVE TESTING.
If for example, if one reads peer-reviewed, scientific literature on the very popular Global Warming Speculation, there will no mention of known cause and effect observations, or repeatable laboratory tests to move the GW Speculation up to the level of an Hypothesis, let alone the very high level of a Theory.
Most Professional Scientists use statistical inference to avoid the tedium of searching and re-searching for an objective test of Empirical Data that can be repeated by their peers by observation, and cause and effect experiments.
This lazy, lack of curiosity, slip-shod method has also found it’s way into Politics.
For example, a majority of American Voters polled during last year’s National Election Campaign concluded that Obama would be better able to reduce the US National Debt than Romney.
I leave to the energetic and curious reader the task of designing one or more objective tests for this popular speculation.
BTW, for extra credit, try objective testing other speculations including the ones mentioned in the above article. Enjoy!
Thanks Graewoulf.
A FYI PING!