George Hammond writes:

On Sat, 03 May 2008 20:55:19 GMT, "John Smith"
wrote:

Screw pedant. Dalton's published thesis that historical
data PROVED his thesis that:

"All of chemistry was explained by
atoms combining to form molecules
because integral moles of reagents
were (historically) always combined
in chemical experiments"

was accepted as a PRIMA FACIE proven theory the day he
published it.... he didin't have to repeat the experiments,
they were WELL KNOWN to everybody.
Same with the SPOG, jerk.

Unsupported assertion!
WHAT EXPERIMENTS?
Just because one "CASE" happens by one particular method, does NOT mean
yours gets the same treatment.

Whaddumean "one case"? The annals of Scence are littered
with such cases of "race ipso" discoveries. For instance:

Dalton, Law of Chemical Combination

One case. Maybe.

Einstein, Gravity=Curvature of spacetime.

You completely "forgot" his infamous solar eclipse experiment where
he explicitly stated that if GR was true, you'd see the image of a star
in a specific location during the eclipse, and if GR was false, you
wouldn't.

Newton, Inverse square law.

Too far before modern science existed. Besides, certainly he made
predictions and observations.

Mendel, binomial inheritance, A+B=A+2AB+B

You forgot about Mendel's famous pea experiments?

Copernicus, Heliocentric System

Too far before modern science existed. He and others did observations
anyway.

Pauling, Chemical orbital bonding

He did experiments.

Lise Meitner, Nuclear fission.

She did experiments.

All of these historic discoveries were HISTORIC
THEORETICAL DISCOVERIES based on and PROVEN the day they
were published; by EXISTING published experimental data.
The same is true of the S.P.O.G.

Wrong.