No, f.n. Websites that say "I did this and this happened" ARE the truth, just as it was when Semmelweiss stated a new-found truth.
What it also means is that you are being given information, a new and vital truth. If you are not capable of understanding it, then that's YOUR problem, not mine.
This is untested dogma as well as a perversion of scientific history.
For instance, The Bible says Cain killed Abel, thus its the truth. nothing anyone can say or do can disprove it, i know it to be true, and since its written down it IS THE TRUTH. This is a parallel of what you've been writing (please tell me I don't need to go over the uncountable amount of fundamental fallacies in those types of statements). If you want to start a bullshit religion, statements like that are fine. If you want to discover truths about reality, those statements are mind-killers. Any third-rate david koresh can make absolute statements about truth without any evidence, logic, or justification...
And lets take a look at Mr. Ignaz Semelweis. He didn't "pronounce a new truth." He saw a problem, came up with a bunch of hypothesis, tested them, and offered conclusions.
From
http://qshc.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/13/3/233 :
IGNAZ SEMMELWEIS (1818–1865)
Known as the "father of infection control", Dr Ignaz (or Ignac) Semmelweis (fig 1) was a Hungarian born physician who received his MD degree in Vienna in 1844. In 1847 he was given a 2 year appointment as an assistant in obstetrics with responsibility for the First Division of the maternity service of the vast Allgemeine Krankenhaus teaching hospital in Vienna.4
There he observed that women delivered by physicians and medical students had a much higher rate (13–18%) of post-delivery mortality (called puerperal fever or childbed fever) than women delivered by midwife trainees or midwives (2%).
This case-control analysis led Semmelweis to consider several hypotheses. He concluded that the higher rates of infections in women delivered by physicians and medical students were associated with the handling of corpses during autopsies before attending the pregnant women. This was not done by the midwives. He associated the exposure to cadaveric material with an increased risk of childbed fever,5 and conducted a study in which the intervention was hand washing.
He then tested his hypothesis in controlled experiments:
Dr Semmelweis initiated a mandatory hand washing policy for medical students and physicians.
In a controlled trial using a chloride of lime solution,6 the mortality rate fell to about 2%—down to the same level as the midwives. Later he started washing the medical instruments and the rate decreased to about 1%.
This doesn't need to turn into a history lesson, but as you can see, Semmelweis didn't "state a new-found truth" and expect everyone around him to bow down. He had an idea, tested it, re-tested it, then brought his results to the scientific community...14 years after his initial observation. THAT is the difference between knowledge and fantasy.
Preach if you want to, but don't distort the history of science to do so...
btw, along with the page above, wikipedia's page is pretty good as well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
Preach if you want to, but don't distort the history of science to do so...
And now i'm actually more interested in the story of mr. semmelweis than your (apparent) fantasies, so good night, and good look (with those black-helicopter killer-ninja alien-underground base adventures)
(edited to clean up some minor spelling errors)