P.S. on the problem with science
I should have, of course, provided the two papers in question so you can decide for yourself. I can't quite do that. I can give you the link to my paper, here:http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/papers/ps/vimsclouds_final.pdfAnd I can even provide you with a link to their paper:http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v459/n7247/full/nature08014.htmlBut it's possible that you can't read theirs. Why not? Because, even after $1B of taxpayer money going to send Cassini to Titan and get these resu

The problem with science
Science is a great system. You examine reality, come up with ideas how it might work, test those ideas, keep the good ones, discard the bad ones, and move on. It’s got one big flaw, though, and that is that science is done by scientists, and scientists are people. I have a whole slew of scientists mad at me this week – and I will admit that I am pretty irritated back – because none of us cool rational analytical scientists can truly separate our emotions and our egos from the reality-based science that we do. In this current dispute, I get to claim the scientific high ground, at least. My scientific paper that just came out this week unarguably demonstrates that the