No one is proposing doing science without observers. I might have hoped this point had been established by now.
Direct or indirect, faulty and distorted that observation often is, science is premised on observation. That was the only point I was making.
You certainly have been sounding that note. Fester can set you charging rather better than anyone else can reign you in. I am out of love with the Twist and Shout trick. (Sorry, AG.) We seem to agree that science must compensate for the tendency of our eyes to tell us that the Buddha statue is getting larger, the indentical shades of blue have far different brightnesses, and the still picture is writhing like a snake. Still you rant on. I can find nothing in the original text which would violate our supposed area of agreement. Still you rant on.
Fester did what he did because he brazens everything. He, like Southack, is never wrong. He must fire back.
We have to be better than this. There is nothing wrong with the original text. I really don't like Twist-and-Shout.