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From: James A Diss <76710.234@CompuServe.COM>
Date: 13 Apr 97 16:59:16 EDT
Fwd Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 23:43:43 -0400
Subject: Re: The Scientific Method: Does It Apply To UFOs?

>From: EdKomarek@aol.com
>Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 16:08:57 -0400 (EDT)
>To: area51@lists.best.com
>cc: updates@globalserve.net, iufo@world.std.com
>Subject: The Scientific Method Does It Apply To UFOs?

Ed wrote;

>Science relys on the repeatable and controlled expermental process.  This
>works fine in the lab and with things that are of lesser intelligence than
>the expermenter.  I submit that science fails when it is applied to equal or
>higher intelligence.

No, it just raises more variables to take into account, for example;

>After three days of frustration the
>researcher came to a profound conclusion.  The octupus was intelligent and
>was expermenting on him also.

That would automatically invalidate the experiment as _designed_, but not the
idea of the experimentation altogether.  Also the intelligence of the cephapods
is well known within Marine biology, but it has never stopped experimentation or
observation of behaviour.

Do we stop describing medicine as a science?

>Not only do we have
>intelligent human operatives moving the so called stakes around to confuse
>the civilian investigator, you have the UFO phenomena doing this also to both
>the civilians and the better informed intelligence operatives.

The experiement merely needs redesigning to take these factors into account, but
the first things you have to do are find the parameters.  Difficult, but not
impossible.

James A Diss
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