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Re: Tinkerers who insult engineers and scientists alike rejoice!

"WHat about intuition and innovation? These do often do not result from systematic investigation. In fact, many times the most interesting things are learned when an expected result does NOT occur."

Science and engineering don't preclude that, in fact they harness it and exploit it to its fullest. Don't you know that science starts with a hypothesis and then sets out to prove or disprove it through carefully conceived and executed experiments and observations? This has nothing to do with blind trial and error. And when someone thinks they've found something new, it gets tested over and over not only by the original inventor but by collegues who are also skilled and can find the merit or flaw in a new idea. Ever heard of cold fusion? It was the joke of the scientific world in the 1990s. Hailed as a revolution in energy, it was refuted by physicists as a mistake made by some chemists. So was the South Korean geneticist who is now in jail for his fraud regarding cloning. By the standards of the high end consumer audio industry, proponents of these invalid concepts and false claims would still be touting their discredited theories as fact to this very day. The difference between science and engineering on the one hand and what golden eared audio equipment tinkerers do on the other is that real technological breakthroughs are built on proven facts, not wishes, dreams, and delusions.

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