At 03:01 PM 12/15/2009, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Also Yoshiaki Arata. He claims that all other experiments in this
field are mistaken, and only his results are valid.
He and I don't get along well because he says things like that.
Yeah, it puts me off my feed, too. He's going to die, as we all are,
and if he's right, where are we left? All we could do is build a
shrine to him and pray for him to enlighten us. Somehow that doesn't
seem like a scientific approach, but if he's right, it would surely
be quite rational, eh?
Experiments aren't mistaken, ever. Collection and analysis of data
can be mistaken, and, even more, interpretation of results can be
mistaken. What does he actually say? Could be a clue.
Arata actually could be quite bright, but a little stuck in his
views, common at his age. Or more than a little. At a certain point,
I can see it coming, we become a bit impatient and perhaps less
polite. Blunt. He's still worthy of respect, I'm sure.
