[moocowduckquack]

Given there are experiments run to explicitly check for stuff like that (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10619127.2010.506...), I think you are possibly wrong.

I'd put it as "All empiricists have faith that there is not much point in being an empiricist if there is a comedy god fiddling the numbers on purpose, purely to screw with the notion of empiricism, so therefore they cheerfully discount that notion as otherwise they wouldn't get much done."