Reply #281: Bingo, you finally admitted it

[JonQ]

you don't care about the basis so long as it says what you want to hear.

"I told you where it comes from, they made it up, based on whatever they knew at the time, "

Which is called existing data points, which if flawed are not going to make a very happy model.


"which is all irrelevant to the question of whether it is a good model or not."

If it relies on false data it is not a good model. How is this complicated?

"The question is whether it agrees with observation. You cannot test that with a bad data set, and you cannot test that with the personal history of the people that made the model."

Sure you can, it was built around a bad data set so why stop now?

Question: do you believe working to silence critics, manipulate data and throw out evidence are the marks of good or bad science?