"Put It To The Test"

From the TMBG wiki:

The original "Why Does the Sun Shine?" was recorded in the 1950s and based on encyclopedic facts from the time, which were later discovered to be incorrect; rather than being made of gas, the sun exists mostly in the fourth state of matter—plasma. By the time the album's fact-checker, Eric Siegel, pointed this out to the band, they had already recorded the song and the accompanying video was already in the works. Not wanting to drop the fan-favorite song from the album but also not wanting to perpetuate incorrect information, the band was faced with a conundrum. While discussing the problem in the studio one day, one of the recording engineers, Jon Altschuler, suggested the band write an "answer song" called "The Sun Is A Miasma Of Incandescent Plasma," which is exactly what they did.

But the way you explain it, it's actually great how the Sun songs turned out. Because the first one was wrong on a technicality, now we get to see a scientific statement being revised.

They reprise their popular cover of "Why Does the Sun Shine?" in a completely new style

Actually this recording is quite similar to the live performance on Severe Tire Damage -- still my favorite recording of this song.

But it is a gigantic nuclear furnace, where hydrogen is built into helium.

The use may be somewhat idiosyncratic, but the point stands. Bayes' rule is correct, provable from basic axioms of probability.

The "naive" scientific method (advocated in the clip) doesn't account for probabilistic evidence. Even the slightly more sophisticated "statistical significance"/hypothesis testing method doesn't do it right.

"Bayesian" is normative in the sense that if you think that plausibility assessments should follow Cox's assumptions, then they ought to be isomorphic to probabilities and updated using Bayes' Rule.

(Note that Cox's argument requires an unintuitive mathematical assumption (as discussed by Halpern, references at the Wikipedia link). Frank J. Tipler of Omega Point infamy has a paper on the arXiv claiming to avoid this assumption.)

Does it matter? What was once a constraint of existing technology is now a vibrant style of its own.

I think so. Pixelly graphics are a bit of an universal symbol for video games, the same way that the steam locomotive is the standard symbol for drawing a train in countries that haven't used them for a long time.

On a lot of game-related websites you'll find old-style pixel art used for decoration, especially those space invader aliens.

right, but it seems to strongly imply that "there is no chocolate cake in the asteroid belt" is a fantasy as well, since it cannot be checked.