The days of pretending that what happens half-way around the globe does not affect us are over. It is time to drop the pretense if we are interested in human progress. Remember Galileo. Humans would never have walked on the moon if they had continued to pretend (believe) that the earth was the center of the universe.

The first step of the Scientific Method is observation, but observation is not measurement. We need to differentiate between the Scientific Method of Nature and the Scientific Methodologies humans have developed.