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[Anton]

And it's also good idea to remember that thousands of "I cannot reproduce" don't convert automatically into "is not reproducible".

Exactly, but until and unless something is confirmed, it's still unconfirmed and should be treated as such. A hypothesis is not converted into fact by way of belief, you know.

It's actually the belief that is moving us forward and waiting for concrete arguments that is stopping the process. 

I think belief is confused with intuition and personal preference here. Those are good things, ultimately based on experience, but once again we are speaking not of research directions, but of substituting objective argument with subjective belief. I'm not against anybody's beliefs. I'm against belief being raised above argument.

Everybody, excuse me for launching OT.

No pb, in fact it was me who laucnhed this methodological discourse, maybe we'll split it into a thread on its own.