[Magdalen] He's back!

[Ann Markle]

And, of course, scientists are always very careful to say they don't
"prove" things.  They either confirm or disconfirm hypotheses.  Enough
replications/confirmations do, in fact, constitute "proof," but scientists
are VERY conservative about claiming that.  It's only media and "laity"
that claim proof at the drop of a hat, rather than after decades of
consistent research.  The REAL scientists here may contradict this, but
this is what my own understanding (from two advanced degrees in the SOCIAL
sciences) says.

Ann

The Rev. Ann Markle
Buffalo, NY
ann.markle at aya.yale.edu
blog:  www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:

> In other words, "Science has proved that..." isn't always Gospel.  "The
> Scientists" may change their minds in ten or twenty or thirty years.  Is
> there a planet called Pluto, as I was continually told in Science classes
> and the General Knowledge that came from them?  Well....
>