If you will bear with me for a moment, I will illustrate my question with an example. I'm not picking on anybody in particular, so let's just call this person Joe. I am having a …

I met someone once who believed that he could validate his ideas just by thinking about them, or getting the sense that they "felt right." Invariably his ideas were interesting, bu …

Patent laws and Copyright laws prevent others from stealing your ideas. But were those ideas really yours to begin with? Or did you just happen to be in the right place at the rig …

Does it just need to feel good, or does there need to be something more? To put it another way, can a scientist invalidate an experiment just because he doesn't like the result? …