The Myth Of Scientific Method

By Leo Gura - June 13, 2025

Here is a physicist discussing some of the myths behind scientific method.

I’ve discussed this in my series, Deconstructing The Myth Of Science, but the problem of falsifiability — and the illusion of a monolith scientific method — goes way deeper than this physicist, or any physicist understands. The depth of these epistemic issues is not understood even by the world’s more serious physicists. That’s the key insight.

Falsifiablity is talked about a lot by scientists, but it is an epistemically unsound notion. Falsifiablity is question-begging. Falsifiablity cannot work because it assumes that you can know the full consequences of a theory. A theory might seem unfalsifiable today, but tomorrow some new technology comes along which allows us to test aspects of the theory which were in the realm of science fiction. That serious scientists and physicists do not under this is embarrassing to their entire profession.

Today, multiverse theory seems unfalsifiable, but tomorrow it may not be. And so it is with all things. You cannot predict ahead of time which tests you will be able to invent to test a theory.

Conversely, you cannot rule out a theory just because you lack the means to test it. Moreover, the ability to test a theory not only depends on technology and instrumentation, but more importantly, on your mind’s ability to imagine new tests. There are some theories which are true, but which the human mind is too limited to imagine tests for. This is especially the case when a theory requires things radically outside of established paradigms. Testing is not just a matter of doing testing in a perfunctory way, testing requires creativity and intelligence. And inventing new kinds of tests requires questioning your paradigmatic epistemic and metaphysical assumptions. Which is why new science cannot be done without a deep grasp of epistemology and metaphysics.

It is possible to test whether God exists or not, but not without changing how you understand what counts as a valid test. “Valid test” is a relativistic notion. You do not what what constitutes a valid test and whatever ideas you have of “validity” could easily be wrong because scientific validity is backwards-defined using prior results and social convention. A scientist’s notion of what counts as a valid test is question-begging. But scientists do not understand this, taking the validity of test, proof, and evidence as an objective given. But in fact these things are subjective, relative, socially-constructed, and not known. As new domains of reality are explored and discovered, the notion of validity gets updated such that you cannot predict where validity will ultimately go. Today, if your scientific experiment results in a ghost, you will probably consider that experiment invalid. However, in the future our standards of validity might update so much that a ghost counts as valid. What counts as valid depends on what your worldview is able to accommodate. When your paradigm can’t explain a ghost, it considers the ghost invalid. When you upgrade your paradigm such that it easily explains a ghost, now the ghost is allowed to be valid. This shows you the prime importance of worldview in the doing of science. The mind considers anything that doesn’t fit its worldview as impossible and therefore invalid and illegitimate. It is not scientific method that runs the show, it is Mind. Mind is the sense-maker, not science! Mind transcends science.

The physicist in the video above says, “Science is about honesty.” NO! Nothing in the mind is about honesty! Mind is only about self-deception! Science is about self-deception. The function of science is to lock Mind into a dream! Science is what fools you into thinking that you aren’t dreaming. It’s not that scientists are deliberately dishonest, it’s that they are unconscious zombies sleep-walking through life. They are not bad people, they just aren’t intelligent enough to fathom self-deception.

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