[spunkets]

"No it isn't. The lcd is the search for knowledge. Junk scientists, social scientists and the natural scientists all use different methods so your statement can not be true."

I said, "science REQUIRES the scientific method". It's that simple. Junk science is not science. Social and natural science, REQUIRE THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Scientific method is great for treating certain parts of knowledge. When it draws from these specifics a shaping principle, or invokes a shaping principle before it attempts to acquire data, what have we then? A philosophy. Or perhaps a theology.

There is no "scientific method" for choosing one theory above another. No one has laid down laws to empirically determine which shaping principle, or even which theory must, or ought be, chosen above another. The same data can easily support more than one theory. Certain folks like Judge Jones, however, take it upon themselves to let us all know "empirically" what to think.