I asked for proof of claims and I just get "it absolutely does" and a bunch more assertions, and word salad like "the validity of the scientific method is ultimately a metaphysical extension of our intuitions about inductive reasoning and causality" -- there's nothing "metaphysical" about it ... the scientific method is a disciplined application of an effective process of discovery. And '"Our intuitions" is why I said metaphysics is tautologically the domain of humans' is more word salad -- "tautologically" has no business in that sentence, and none of the rest of it makes any sense either. Humans have multiple domains, not just "the" domain. Metaphysics is a field of study that non humans capable of studying can also study. Metaphysical facts govern everything, not just humans. etc. I consider this sort of junk to border on bad faith ... it certainly isn't of any use to me, and I have no interest in engaging with it.
> There is no scientific proof that the scientific method is valid.
The scientific method is provably effective in a lawful world. That the scientific method isn't provably effective is because the world is not provably lawful ... it's logically possible for the "laws" of physics--which are simply regularities that we have discovered--to suddenly change, oscillate, be random, etc. But as long as they don't the scientific method works ... and we can't do better. (Not in this world, anyway ... in some other world there might be oracles (aka gods or bibles) that always have the right answer and we could simply query them. Of course, such oracles are also not provably correct.)
I know what metaphysics is (and your description isn't accurate--science is a knowledge-producing method that doesn't depend on metaphysics in order to be meaningful), but that has nothing to do with my statement. And it's called "metaphysics" because Andronicus placed that volume after the "physics" volume when he organized Aristotle's writings.
> It’s not just an analogy or a coincidence that the word “entropy” is a word used in both physics and computer science (information theory).
Shannon asked von Neumann what to call it, and von Neumann said "You should call it entropy, for two reasons: In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, nobody knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage."
> Obsessive hacker tools like Emacs are not a productivity enhancer.
This is intellectually dishonest framing. "obsessive hacker tools" is incoherent -- it's not the tool that is obsessive or a hacker. I don't obsessively hack emacs--I barely know elisp--and emacs is very much a productivity enhancer for me. The main benefit of the hackability of emacs for me is that hackers write useful packages for it that I occasionally run across and install.
No doubt it's frustrating to carefully head off a strawman misreading of your points, and then have someone like sph completely ignore that and attack the strawmen anyway ... but it's well known that people like that exist, else it wouldn't be necessary to head off their strawman attacks in the first place, so don't take it too hard when you actually encounter them.
> Strong said it was not known when the bacterium entered the water, only that it was present during routine fecal bacteria testing on the discharged water.
I'm not the liar here -- none of those family pardons are for "white collar crimes", they were to protect them from retribution by Trump.
Again, Trump pardons people for a fee, and the motto of his pardons office is "no MAGA left behind". The fraud that he has pardoned amounts to about $2 billion to date.
> There is no scientific proof that the scientific method is valid.
The scientific method is provably effective in a lawful world. That the scientific method isn't provably effective is because the world is not provably lawful ... it's logically possible for the "laws" of physics--which are simply regularities that we have discovered--to suddenly change, oscillate, be random, etc. But as long as they don't the scientific method works ... and we can't do better. (Not in this world, anyway ... in some other world there might be oracles (aka gods or bibles) that always have the right answer and we could simply query them. Of course, such oracles are also not provably correct.)