I was proving that ausGeoff was wrong when he claimed that "all scientists use the scientific method." They clearly do not.
Sorry
legion, but you weren't "proving me wrong" LOL. You just don't get it do you?
Your task—as a flat earther—is to produce empirical evidence that supports your belief that the planet is some sort of flat, planar shape. The scientific
status quo is that it's spherical.
Therefore there's really no point in you citing half a dozen "scientists" who've perpetrated or been the inadvertent victims of hoaxes. In the overall scheme of things that these forums are all about—a purportedly flat earth—that sort of stuff is totally immaterial. Rather than trying to denigrate the scientists who've produced unequivocal evidence for the proof of a spherical earth, and denouncing the sciences that support this position,
you need to provide empirical evidence of your own to prove your claim of a flat earth.One doesn't win a debate—any debate—by demonising the evidence of their opponent; one has to provide
their own sound evidence to succeed at a debate.
Thus far, you and your flat earth peers have provided not one single piece of viable scientific evidence that would indicate anything other than that the earth is an oblate spheroid.
The other point you obviously don't understand is that every one of these admitted scientific frauds, delusions, or deliberate misrepresentations
have been exposed AND corrected by a plethora other scientists.
So—for the benefit of the flat earth pedants here—I'll rephrase my claim to read "All legitimate scientists use the scientific method".