re: Scientific scandal appears to rock climate change promoters

Tigger23505 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:59:24 GMT

Many years ago when I was learning science, from a practicing scientist, it was explained to me that you let the data do the speaking. You do not look for data that agrees with what you think.

Tycho Brahe, was known by his understudy and successor Kepler to be a meticulous observer and record keeper. Kepler initially tried to make Brahe's data fit the the then orthodox regular solid orbit theory, when the choice came to keep the theory or keep the data, Kepler kept the data. As a result he rethought the theory and developed the idea of elliptical orbits. Issac Newton, later took Kepler's observationally based 'laws' of planetary motion and developed the basics of applied and theoretical physics for the next 200 years. And by the way, Newton invented a new mathematical method to process the data, Calculus. NB: Credit for developing Integral and Differential calculus should be shared with G. W. Liebnitz.