Michael Gordin, “Science and Pseudoscience” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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Is It Possible to Falsify a Scientific Statement?
Einstein has, again, a quot which could be apocryphal, but in this case i also don't think it is. Tus this famous line that, surely, you know, wen, somebody said to him, well, what if they had not actually got this result? And then he would have said, wild i'll be sorry for the dear lord. Thetheory is correct. It's very, very tricky to determine when that happens. That's problem. Any demarcation criterion, whatever it has to be, has to cut the world in the right place, rightly. Want you want to make sure that all the things that we think of as sciences are scientific
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