What 'fact of science' do you hate the most?

[pErvinalia]

That the Earth is a globe. Everyone who's not a sheep knows it's flat.

[Sean Hayden]

That's a pre-scientific revolution fact. I think we need some clarification on what counts as a scientific fact in this thread...

[Cunt]

I genuinely dislike some of the social science stuff, but so many would call it 'not science'.

[pErvinalia]

Rational actor theory from economics (also not a science).

[NineBerry]

There are no facts in science. Only models and theories.

[pErvinalia]

Speed of light is a fact.

[NineBerry]

Speed of light is a fact.

I don't think so

[pErvinalia]

You need to go to a Dutch university to sort you out.

[Svartalf]

Personally, I'm miffed with gravity, I always wanted to fly.

[Tero]

Parts. All this chemistry I had to do dealt with atoms. The only parts I liked were electrons. You vould add some. Them neutrons and protons were inside but you could never get to them. I couldn't just add protons from another jar. No, I had to order all new atoms and molecules from Aldrich just because my atoms had too few or too many protons.

It's almost like plumbing but the atoms came by UPS.

[Cunt]

Rational actor theory from economics (also not a science).

That just sounds like hogswallop. 'Economics' is going to need new theories, now that people can't hand each other things.

It reminds me of how disappointing indifference curves turned out to be. I thought it should mean the amount of curviness which one has, that disturbs the indifference of the opposite sex...

Personally, I'm miffed with gravity, I always wanted to fly.

With no gravity, flying would be a lot less impressive (have you read Niven's 'Integral Trees'?)

Parts. All this chemistry I had to do dealt with atoms. The only parts I liked were electrons. You vould add some. Them neutrons and protons were inside but you could never get to them. I couldn't just add protons from another jar. No, I had to order all new atoms and molecules from Aldrich just because my atoms had too few or too many protons.

It's almost like plumbing but the atoms came by UPS.

I don't say this to taunt you, Tero, but do yourself a favour - don't look into string theory. You'll just be more disappointed.

There are no facts in science. Only models and theories.

So if I understand you correctly, the pedantry of scientific folk is the 'science fact' that you hate the most?

[Faithfree]

12 parsecs is about 38 light-years.

And I thought it was a long way down the road to the chemist.

[Faithfree]

Entropy is a bit of a cunt.

Even more of a cunt as you get older!