What assumptions do scientists/science make?

[neanderpaul14]

How do you know that I am not a sasquatch?

*sneaks up behind Mittens and fires tranquilizer darts*

I got him......... oh crap it's not really a sasquatch.......lousy fur coat wearing.....

[PLAYER57832]

How do you know that I am not a sasquatch?

*sneaks up behind Mittens and fires tranquilizer darts*

I got him......... oh crap it's not really a sasquatch.......lousy fur coat wearing.....

Look more closely... that IS Sasquatch. The reason they have been so hard to detect is that they can remove their coats and hide among us, pretending they are just like us.

[jonesthecurl]

...just like communists.

[neanderpaul14]

How do you know that I am not a sasquatch?

*sneaks up behind Mittens and fires tranquilizer darts*

I got him......... oh crap it's not really a sasquatch.......lousy fur coat wearing.....

Look more closely... that IS Sasquatch. The reason they have been so hard to detect is that they can remove their coats and hide among us, pretending they are just like us.

*Pulls out hunting knife*........We need to dissect it to be sure.......

[Neutrino]

Fortune telling of the weather

Meterology has always been a very probabilistic profession. You can get something like 70-80% accuracy by just stating "Today's weather will be more-or-less the same as yesterday's". The science of meterology, for all the millions poured into it, can only do 10 odd percent better. This is because the meterologists are attempting to model the behaviour of thousands of cubic k's of air, and its interactions with yet more thousands of square k's of land and water. Do you really think it's so bad that rain was incorrectly predicted when the volume your local meterologists are attempting to model is significantly larger than that of humanity? Hell, no credible scientist has thought the weather is predictable by anything approaching modern equipment for decades now. The entire thing is just far too complex.

Perpetual Motion

Perpetual motion..

Scientists state that it is impossible..despite the fact that our universe is in a state of perpetual motion.

Their justification is that energy can niether be created nor destroyed (Einstein), but if energy cannot be destroyed then it can be re-used infinitely.

Logic dictates that if energy can niether be created nor destroyed, even the smallest unit of energy has unlimited potential.

Ungh. It's almost painful to watch someone be so determinedly wrong, without even the tiniest bit of research to justify it.

Wiki Entropy. Please. Hell, I'll do it for you. Here. Educate yourself.

Don't you consider it the tiniest bit odd that no-one has actually built a functioning perpetual motion machine? If perpetual motion is as simple as you say it is, why aren't I zooming around on my own personal lightcraft? Why are there still any other form of energy generation? Why hasn't every single problem facing humanity been solved, save those produced by a bored population with access to infinite energy?

The cause of homosexuality

Not a biologist or psychologist. Not gunna argue this one.

Sasquatch

Bwuh?

Anything which they claim is "impossible"

No scientist worth their salt will claim that anything is completely impossible, except in the colloquial sense.
Plenty of things are functionally impossible (such as perpetual motion), simply because their existence would destroy massive swathes of modern science, all of which has been proved to function (the computer in front of you, say. If the laws of thermodynamics are complete bunk, why does it function at all? Since it does function, we must assume that the laws of thermodynamics are fundamentally sound, and this means no perpetual motion.).

Before you respond, please consider these two important statements: Anecdote is not a synonym for data. The plural of anecdote is not data.

[PLAYER57832]

The cause of homosexuality

Wrong? While some biologists and psychologists may have opinions about the cause, nothing is proven. No one really knows yet.

[InkL0sed]

Before you respond, please consider these two important statements: Anecdote is not a synonym for data. The plural of anecdote is not data.

That's right, the plural of bit is data

[jonesthecurl]

silly. data is the singular of "androids".