I tend to agree. I think the future of "true science" in America has gone from law to hypothesis, something that could only have been done by non-scientist.
The black plague, the chief dread of the period, completely retreated from Europe to its original home in central Asia... There are no outbreaks of plague on record during the LCO and few of other diseases. ...the Mongols, who burst into Europe just before the era drew to a close. A curious fact about these episodes is that they were not followed by massive exchanges of diseases, which normally occurs when cultural bubbles are broken after long periods of isolation.
The black plague was unknown in Europe until a Genoese ship fleeing from a Mongol seige of a Black Sea port in 1347 brought it. This was after the end of the LCO, which is usually put around 1300.
It is also ludicrous to contend that medieval Europe was an unusually healthy place. Epidemics were common, just not to the scale of the black death.
In fact, all European cities to 1850 had higher death than birth rates due to disease. Immigration from the comparatively healthy countryside is all that kept cities from dying out.
Can you provide an example of a hypothesis whose predictions are accurate, and the hypothesis isn't supported?
His conflation of special and general relativity is another howler. I didn't bother to read further.
While your implication that the Author was incorrect in stating that Einstein presented, General Relativity in 1905 (he presented Special Relativity) is true, the example is representative of General Relativity and congruent conflation is an apt method of conveying accurate ideas.
No reason to ask you further. You clearly are not one of the brightest bulbs in the human race if you are capable of such drivel.
LOL...
"I didn't bother to read further" ... [if i had, i would risk being educated]
What are you talking about? As a research scientist, myself, I can tell you that he almost 100% gets it. To get to 100%, I would have added the phrase"...until contradictory new data is obtained."
He said he took it from Rush Limbaugh. It's the first sentence of the second paragraph.
"Take general relativity, for instance. (Full disclosure: this example is stolen in toto from Rush Limbaugh's program of February 2nd.)"