Laudatores Temporis Acti, or Why Cosmology is Alive and Well - A Reply to Disney
arXiv:astro-ph/0107303 · doi:10.1023/A:1015270522659
Abstract
A recent criticism of cosmological methodology and achievements by Disney (2000) is assessed. Some historical and epistemological fallacies in the said article have been highlighted. It is shown that---both empirically and epistemologically---modern cosmology lies on sounder foundations than it is portrayed. A brief historical account demonstrates that this form of unsatisfaction with cosmology has had a long tradition, and rather meagre results in the course of the XX century.
11 pages, no figures; a criticism of astro-ph/0009020; Gen. Rel. Grav., accepted for publication