I have some major critical rejoinders in response to orcenio’s and Malthus’ posts, not to mention several earlier ones, but I simply cannot prepare them now due to time constraints. I just wanted to note that I will return as soon as I find enough time to dedicate to them.
For now, I just need to point out that the claim that there is any kind of documented or central or widespread “thing” known as the “scientific method” outside of high-school textbooks can only come from someone whose knowledge of science – especially working science – has not progressed very far from those same high school textbooks. As Bertrand Russell satirically but wisely observed: “Heaven is a place where everything works like it does in the textbooks.”