Scientific Method, Groundless Guesswork - Same Thing?

Retraction Watch is doing a good thing by notifying us of papers that have been retracted because of fraud, plagiarism and other legerdemain. But the message is that the process itself is fundamentally sound if it were not subverted by these few bad apples.

I argue here that the process is unsound. Francis Bacon pulled off an advertising coup that would make Madison Avenue blush when he named his own methodology the “scientific” method, thus tacitly implying that everyone else is unscientific. In this paper I present an alternative to the scientific method.

http://www3.unifr.ch/econophysics/s..._Method_Groundless_Guesswork_Same_Thing_0.pdf

So if you name your magazine Life, your saying no one else has a life?

I can see your point. We have to be careful that we don't put scientific method or any other human-inspired path to knowledge on a pedestal while using the same brain. We (the collective we) all suffer from biases and prejudices. Science, great as it is, is not exempt from that.