[WikiEN-l] Slander against scientists

[tarquin]

Ray Saintonge wrote:

>
> That something cannot be proven does not make it false.  In the spirit 
> of Kurt Gödel there are always things that cannot be proven withinn a 
> finite set of principles.  Fermat's Last Theorem could not be proven 
> for 300 years, did that make it false during all that time?  Were all 
> the people who insisted on its truth for three centuries to be called 
> pseudoscientists, or even more slanderously, frauds?  

that really isn't the same thing at all.
mathematical proof is very different scientific proof.