Some scientists are so confident of their superior intellect that they never doubt their own ideas. Even wild speculation is passed off as science, because it is a scientist speaking.
This guy has had scientific training, but he's just a nut job. Wild speculation does not become science just because someone who was scientifically educated came up with the ideas. In order for a scientific hypothesis (not theory) to be genuine, it must be logically based in known facts--which this guy's speculation is not. In the science world, a theory is not speculation--it is the framework that ties together and explains a body of knowledge in a specific subject.
“Some scientists are so confident of their superior intellect that they never doubt their own ideas. Even wild speculation is passed off as science, because it is a scientist speaking.”
To be fair, this comment is attributed to him in the article:
“He is at pains to point out that that it is merely a hypothesis”
It’s an interesting observation, but alas just a hypothesis and as such is specifically NOT passed off as science.
bttt
So, is he going to try and prove his theory?