In the practice of science, how is the accuracy of a scientific claim evaluated? by testing the claim's predictions in a controlled setting by critically considering alternative scientific claims or explanations by repeating the experiments that led to the claim being made by carefully gathering and analyzing a variety of opinions from the public

Because the earth is not round ,but it may seem round when viewed from ,our planet but true some points earth is not round was an oblate spheroid -a square that it squashed as globe however is not even a perfect oblate spheroid.in fact isaac newton's first proposed that earth was not perfectly round but it was an oblate spheroid instead.that mean a square that is squashed as its poles and swollen at the