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If your definition of "truth" is such that any method is as good as any other of finding it, then the scientific method really is no better than anything else at finding it. Of course most of the "truths" won't bear much resemblance to what you'd get if you only used the scientific method.
Also most of these truths will eventually wind up putting you in a position where you start experiencing pain or even dying despite your "truth" telling you that you aren't.
Or as Chesterton put it:
Or as Dick put it: "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."