[nonbel]

This was figured out long ago. Before people should believe you know what you are talking about, you need to make precise and accurate predictions about the future (comet should reappear on x date) or perform engineering feats (pull a ship out of the water using only your own manpower).

People just don't like this real solution because it means many (really, most) of the wild speculations they hold as dear dogma (and have been calling science) will need to be reassessed using the correct metric. There will undoubtedly be a lot of egg on many faces.