The "observer problem" apparently doesn't provide for exceptions.
It’s a scientific concept. Is it not? You’re a scientist; you tell me. By my humble and uninformed comprehension, it is an ever-present obstacle that can be overcome to a greater or lesser extent depending on circumstances, but never entirely. One of the greatest obstacles, I suspect, is to be found in the natural human desire to not see what one does not wish to see.
One of the assertions made repeatedly by scientists in this forum is that eyewitness testimony is thought to be notoriously unreliable. Is this true? Or, is it true merely when it is convenient for it to be true?
I had a rather simple point to make. I must say that the level of resistance to that point is more than a little surprising.