The speculative idea that the reason physicists can be made to look like idiots is because they are idiots

In Shouldn’t Something Be Done? and Science and Science Fiction, Peter Woit is displeased with the History Channel’s program Parallel Universes, and so he says,
I don’t really see how an intelligent person can watch this thing and not come away with the impression that theoretical physicists are a bunch of idiots.
In this post, I would [...]

Sean confusing the the past versus the present, confusing the general versus the specific

Sean’s logically-extended-science demands “science never proves anything,” because his “science” is primarily about the past, in comparison to Galileo’s science, which was all about the present.
In arxiv Find: A Realistic Cosmological Model…, Sean links to a past argument of his (the link is in the second paragraph of the quote below) that supposedly should convince [...]

Mythical “science can’t prove anything right” quotes

Chris Oakley says as comment on Woit’s blog:

With all due respect to Sean, this is not the sort of view that a scientist should take. “Right” and “wrong” imply certainties, a luxury never afforded to the scientist. There are only good explanations and bad explanations.