whoops
not too long ago the bad astronomer posted something that wasn't quite right. yeah, okay. i'm being nice. what he said was dead wrong. inevitably, and quite quickly, he came face to face with the facts. and he said, holy shit guys! i was wrong. and you know what? nobody really cared. cause he's a scientist. a real scientist. scientists are not gods. they never claim to be. they glory in whatever theory or model is most useful at the current time. and then abandon it when something better comes along. i think one of the problems here is that people expect scientists to be exactly right all the time. and when they're not, lazy thinking kicks in. and people assume that scientists are wrong *all* of the time. which is just really really weird. but it allows people to make a living bashing scientists. which is terribly unfortunate. for all of us.