astronomers

Until Kepler, astronomers believed planets to move in circular paths, but this did not match up with experimental data.

Now, to be fair, as Dijkstra is said to have pointed out, astronomers are not experts on telescope building.

The black holes observed by astronomers are not actually black holes, but rather super massive neutron starts.

Why should all of us pay and deal with these stupid hacks, just because some astronomers can't fix their software?

Because astronomers see these every single night and have developed sophisticated filters to remove them.

In a sense, astronomers do perform experiments, on different conditions but with the same theory.

Nearly all astronomers who use Python are actually using Fortran and C++ - the python code is mostly wrappers on low-level libraries.

This model was able to represent all the data astronomers collected, but did not explain why the radii were what they were.

It's not possible to distinguish between these two objects, astronomers assume a black holes based on size, not based on observed phenomena.

Do astronomers actually measure the time it takes a star/planet/whatever to orbit?

Today, and thousands of discoveries later, astronomers are on the cusp of finding something people have dreamed about for thousands of years -- another Earth.

I don't think the CRU folks have been particularly careless or particularly opaque compared to, say, physicists or astronomers or biologists.

I don't know if astronomers do actually perform experiments on some limited scale, but it seems that classicaly they relied on "luck" to test predictions e.

Astronomers prefer being told: okay, you get 8 dark nights, but if there's a storm, your SOL.

Astronomers don't build telescopes; Opticians do that.

Astronomers use sidereal time instead of solar time anyway, so they're used to making time corrections, the sidereal day is only 23 hrs, 56m, 4 seconds and change.