My article "The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything", which is 186 pages in 8.5*11 inch format, uses the Scholarly Method extensively, with 490 entries in the Bibliography and 330 footnotes.
I went for a walk with a 4 year old yesterday. I taught her the rhyme "See you later alligator, in a while crocodile". Later, she said, "bye bye alligator" and "see you later crocodile.... joke". She gets that there is some pattern to how jokes go, but she hasn't figured out how to repeat it. Having a bibliography and footnotes doesn't make something scientific.
I'll look into the rest. I've heard of Tipler though and doubt what you say is accurate.
Are you familiar with this little gem?]
You're leading her astray, Lausten. Everybody knows it's, " See ya later alligator, AFTER WHILE, crocodile." She may be ruined forever!
Lois
Agreed. In my childhood experience, it was "after while". I was being tolerant, however, in assuming that "in a while" was just some northern colloquial divergence. But how are we ever going to have another greatest generation, if our young are subjected to these kind of errors?