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Originally Posted by Damien
Science is a process. It is not a religion. However it is a process which seeks to understand though testing and re-testing and trying to, as best we can, prove facts about our universe. As such it's findings do have some weight. Some people seem to think it's just a point of view, a 'side', among many which is what is annoying about the Creationism 'debate'. The idea that religions belief is an equal, on Scientific terms, to evolution is wrong.
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Bearing in mind the topic of this thread ...
... you're addressing the scientific method as the ideal means to 'do science'. Prof. Plimer, on the other hand, is addressing the people who do the science, and pointing out that they are as fallible as anyone else.
You can praise the method as much as you like, but the fact is, once you expect human beings to perform it, it becomes as prone to 'fads, fanatics and frauds' as anything else.
To quote him again, with added emphasis:
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Perhaps it is comforting to believe that science is an absolute discipline: immune from fads, fanatics and frauds, untroubled by extremists, evangelists, glory-seekers and bigots. But it is not.
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