Greetings eight bits the experiment in question does apply the scientific method and is in keeping with the requirements and procedures inherent in such efforts. But lets get you your query....
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Our views of the physical world are changing rapidly. Humanity's continuing search for coherent structures in physics, biology, and cosmology has frequently led to surprises as well as confusion. Discovering new phenomena is one thing, putting them into context with other pieces of knowledge, and inferring their fundamental consequences is quite something else. There are controversies, differences of opinion, and sometimes even religious feelings which come into play. These should be discussed openly. Philosophical issues that are of a general, nontechnical nature should be handled in the opinion pages of the news media, but when the discussed arguments become too technical for that, when peer review is needed to select the really valuable pieces of insight, only a distinguished scientific journal is the appropriate form.
You quoted the text out of context....
My question was very simple what is the basis of your comment....
eight bits states....
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The appearance of a paper in Foundations of Physics would not ordinarily be taken as an acceptance of an experiment's outcome by physicists nor by the larger scientific community. The focus of the journal is on the philosophical, theoretical, and other implications of the work, if an experiment being discussed panned out.
eight bits states....
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Foundations of Physics has recently changed editors, and so there may be a change in editorial policy. In years past, and you cited a 1989 paper, the journal cultivated a reputation for publishing controversial and speculative papers by serious authors.
You are claiming that A: Foundations of Physics changed editors and B: Philosophy, Theory and other (alternate)implications of a particular work are what this Scientific Journal only evaluates.
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I hope to receive your submissions. Acceptation of a paper may not necessarily mean that all referees agree with everything, but rather that the issues put forward by the author were considered to be of sufficient interest to our readership, and the exposition was clear enough that our readers, whom we assume to be competent enough, can judge for themselves.
Again taken out of context...
Science in general is by its very nature controversial and conclusions reached more than often subject to argument (referees or otherwise). Foundations Of Physics is a Scientific Journal and acknowledged as such by the scientific community. So again I ask what is the basis for your comment?
eight bits states...
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Publication in the journal is not evidence of professional agreement about the soundness of the paper, but rather that the paper is interesting and well presented.
Specifically I am not asking for your opinion I understand that part,I am asking for the basis in fact for that opinion?
Any thoughts?