[Quark2005]

You have a great deal of faith in the notion that the method is well-established (care to quantify?) and in the means by which the method was established.

Are you suggesting that science abandon the scientific method? I'm having trouble discerning what it is you're trying to argue here.

[AmishDude]

Are you suggesting that science abandon the scientific method?

I'm saying faith in the scientific method is a faith. You must accept its validity in order to use it. (This does not address the flaws in the method, which are most egregious in so-called junk science. Of course, these flaws can be considered part of the method itself.)