alt Hacker NewsIn what way, exactly? It's one thing to assert an analogy between two things, and quite another to assert an identity.
The specific example given was divergent models of colliding magnetic field lines.
How are the models religious?
How are the models dogmatic?
The example under discussion suggests neither in the literal sense.
The previous poster said:
> When these models fail, the community will often enforce the model and censor the opposing facts. I have encountered several such conflicts.
Censoring opposing fact to enforce the wrong model is religious dogma. Or maybe just dogma. Religious or scientific.
At any rate, it's the antithesis of what the scientific method is. The reality is that scientists in general pay lip service to the scientific method, without forgetting where their paychecks come from (government, military or corporations).