• Question: If you were to fight the hardest to defend one currently unproved theory, what would that theory be?

    Asked by sammieblues to David, Luna, Mark, Melanie, Probash on 23 Mar 2011 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Luna Munoz

      Luna Munoz answered on 22 Mar 2011:

      Given my expertise, I would say that I could fight my hardest to defend a psychological theory. However, I’m having trouble answering your question, because I don’t think I would try to defend any theory. Science is a process by which we analyze facts to arrive at a theory and we build experiments to test these theories. I try to have an open mind when testing theories, because I want to allow the possibility that the theory is wrong. If, as a scientist, I did an experiment with the idea that I need to fight to defend it, that bias would creep in and it would be wrong.

    • Photo: David Pyle

      David Pyle answered on 23 Mar 2011:

      Actually, I would put my energy into testing the unproved theory: and I would choose the theory that life on Earth might have originated at a bubbling hot-water vent at the bottom of the ocean..

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