Falsificationism falsifies itself: it is a theory scientists refuse to abandon despite mountains of observations that falsify it
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Humors, ether, racism, exorcism, power pose... list of falsified theories seems endless....
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Each was displaced by a better theory, not abandoned as soon as the first anomaly was found. (Power pose being maybe an exception!)
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Agree about the sociology of science here, but to me falsification is about the conditions under which knowledge grows.
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Falsification is the ideal towards which science (and scientists) should strive. Whether they live up to it is a secondary question.
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Maybe over very long time scales?
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Empirically, failure to explain evidence never leads to abandoning a theory. Only a new, better theory does.
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They usually do when they die.
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“… Science progresses one funeral at a time…”
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RIPopper
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He was a good guy. But his theory of science was silly
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