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Finally, she and some of her followers are often perceived as being dogmatic, frequently ignoring published criticism of the system instead of responding to it. This is in part because many of them were young people excited by her novels and unlearned in philosophy; such people are not often aware of the complexities of their subject and prone to construe disagreement as ignorance. Furthermore, many of her supporters would not permit modifications or additions to her philosophical system, leading some to label Rand as a cult leader.

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I mentionned that scientific method can be corrupted by the simple act of lying. If you show someone the results of a parachute drop and claim that the results are from a rock dropping down with little air resistance, then you can use scientific method to come up with all sorts of fallacious theories about gravity.

Of course this wasn't proper scientific method, but it's obvious to anyone that abstract methods don't always work out as planned in practice. The fail safe for scientific method is "bitching". As long as people can bitch and criticise and whine all thy want we can be certain that scientific method will be implemented to the best that our intelligence allows.

Let's go back to that galileo dropping stuff from the tower of piza simple scientific method example again..

The fact is as follows.

"When dropped form the tower of piza an egg with a parachute takes 15 seconds to touch down."

Under intense scrutiny even the most complex magic tricks will be revealed. If you are allowed to stop a magician half way through his trick and search his pockets you will always find the hidden handkerchief and ace of spades. Thus when the eggy parachute is revealed, no fallacious theories can be composed.

All bodies accelerate equally depending on the gravity unless something pushed back up. We will call this push a force. The relationship appears to be that acceleration is proportional to the force per mass ratio. a=k/m, to find this elusive property of the natural world we must multiply the acceleration by the mass, thus ma = F

F=MA, zomg physics!!