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WannabeTesla posted Why Falsifiability Matters | Oct 30, 2009
Falsifiability is one of the most important and yet seemingly most misunderstood elements of the scientific method. For many individuals, commonly skeptics and freethinkers, falsifiability is so significant it is adopted as an ontological cornerstone. In order to understand how it is applied, we...
WannabeTesla posted An Excerpt from "The Greatest Show on Earth" | Oct 7, 2009
The distinction between the two dictionary meanings of 'theory' is not an unbridgeable chasm, as many historical examples show. In the history of science, [theories] often start off as 'mere' hypotheses. Like the theory of continental drift, an idea may even begin its career mired in ridicule,...
