[scottishcow]

You make it sound as if the author is some middling engineer building smartphones for Apple.

An EE professor at a well-regarded research university deals with the scientific method all the time. Whatever opinion you may have about the article, as far as I can tell the author is certainly not on "the sidelines" and more than qualified to write about the state of science.

[war1025]

> some middling engineer building smartphones for Apple.

> An EE professor at a well-regarded research university

Oddly enough, I'd trust the experience of an engineer over that of a professor basically every time.