The energy of college football rivals that of a live performance for me. I am an extremely analytical guy and predicting these games is right up my alley, especially with a little luck thrown in. It is even more fun when I am winning and I have to say, I have fared quite well in my predictions.
I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out.
Whenever you try to pick market tops and bottoms, you are making a prediction. Guessing what stock is going to outperform the market is forecasting, as is selling a stock for no apparent reason. Indeed, nearly all capital decisions made by most people are unconscious predictions.
If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.
I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.
Very much, string theory is simply a work in progress. What we are inching toward every day are predictions that within the realm of current technology we hope to test. It's not like we're working on a theory that is permanently beyond experiment. That would be philosophy.
Most successful pundits are selected for being opinionated, because it's interesting, and the penalties for incorrect predictions are negligible. You can make predictions, and a year later people won't remember them.
The real reason why general relativity is widely accepted is because it made predictions that were borne out by experimental observations.
You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.
If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.