> It seems to me that our adherence to the scientific method has been
> compromised by other interests.

It generally has... as there is not really something like the "scientific
method". Or, if there is, it boils down to something as trivial as
observing and reaching conclusions that are shared by the majority. Doesn't
really sound "scientific" :)

If you mean the process described by creating theories and trying to
falsify them by experiment (verification is not really possible -- it's
more the absence of false results that kind of "verifies" the theory
temporarily until there are some), then a lot of fields of knowledge that
commonly are considered science are not really science. Most "geo-anything"
are among them: it's difficult to run experiments at that scale.

Gerhard

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