Answer:
No, because conflicting evidence and arguments were not considered.
Explanation:
Part of the scientific process involves doing experiments and then proposing explanations for the results. Your explanation must account for all the results, including the contradictory evidence.
If you submit to the scientific community just the results that agree with your hypothesis, you are being academically dishonest. That’s why a scientist must keep an indelible record of all the observations, not just the favourable ones.
They must be able to judge your idea based on all the evidence that you uncovered.
The conflicting results may be the ones that lead eventually to a much better idea.
A review by family and friends does NOT validate your idea. They have a vested interest in making you look good, and this represents a conflict of interest. The review must be conducted by a group of impartial persons who have the knowledge and expertise to evaluate your techniques and ideas and the ability to propose alternative ideas. Dissent, rather than consent, will provide the best test of your idea.
If the conflicting ideas conflict with your observations, you can immediately reject them as false.
Otherwise, you will have to devise new experiments to test these ideas. You would have to predict what you would observe if they were true and then accept or reject them based on your findings.
