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Re: Really, now? I'm an AES member. Perhaps you confuse the AES with its members?

Your claims of my burning strawman are becoming kind of pathetic at this point. I am creating a strawman because it was a few members of the AES at an AES meeting that conducted a pathetic charade of a "scientific test" and not the AES itself? "You confuse the AES with its members". The membership of the AES is not the AES? Any which way you cut it these people, the self proclaimed "objectivists", are real. They do exist. Just pick up a copy of The Sensible Sound if you really think I have created a strawman here.
My statement of the scientific method is accurate. The scientific method has four steps as I named them. You really want to say "repeatablity" is a "step" in the scientific method? It is a required condition of any scientific experiment if the scientists are to accept the results of any such experiment as empirical evidence. The experiment is the step and "repeatability" is a required condition for it to be "scientific". It is not one of the four basic steps in the scientific method. "Falsifiability?" Another step? I think not. It is yet another required condition of science. This time it applies to all theories and scientific facts. Confirmation? This one of the four basic steps in the scientific method? Im sorry but you are just wrong on this one. By the way the "point" of the scientific method is for humans to learn the whats and hows of the universe in the way that best avoids human error. The "point" of the scietific method certainly is not "that others can establish the same or similar results EXTERNALLY to the experimenter". That is the mechanism in the scientific method by which scientists reduce human error.


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