07-23-2008, 05:54 AM
The last people to say science is infallible will be scientists if they know anything about their craft. And some don't. The reality is that people have been going with well-intended friendly anecdotes about physical phenomena from time immemorial. This thing about controlled testing against objective conditions is pretty new, just a few hundred years, and it's understandable that it doesn't have the standing against the time-tested anecdotal method. But without that objective evidence this hydrogen thing certainly tips toward the snake oil side.