It’s interesting that this thread should have just been posted....
Theories, Facts, and ‘Denialism’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2465335/posts
“A world-class scientist on the listserv claimed in the course of an unrelated debate that gravity was a fact, not a theory. This struck me as fundamentally wrongheaded, and it still does. It is, of course, a “fact” that unsupported objects fall. What explains this observable fact is the theory of gravity. Gravity is the theory; the falling object is the fact. The theory explains the fact, but the theory never becomes a fact.
This scientist was quite adamant on the point, going so far as to assert that we inquisitive laymen on this listserv should just take his word for it, since he is an expert and we aren’t.”
Global warming is true.
And the world is flat.
All intellectuals know this as FACT.