There is no such thing as a scientific fact, it is merely someone's opinion put into words

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There are numeric facts , historic facts, and there are common sense facts

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Numeric facts would be, typically, two plus two equals four, which may be regarded as a fact. An historic fact is the consequence of something happening in the past although the accuracy of the fact will be subjective depending on the person making the observation. A common sense fact may, typically, be, if you touch a hot surface with your finger you will receive a burn.

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Scientific facts are a matter of conjecture. It is convenient for educational purposes to classify scientific phenomena as facts instead of hypotheses which is a more accurate representation.

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Albert Einstein's Theory of relativity is not a fact, it is just a theory.

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The obsession of the academically elite is to create scientific facts. The classic statement is that they have done the research and the resulting statistics prove that it is a fact. They are just kidding themselves.

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The whole curriculum based educational system is built on learning and remembering facts which is in conflict with Albert Einstein's famous quote on the subject......."Education is not the learning of facts but the training of the mind to think"