Falsificationism falsifies itself: it is a theory scientists refuse to abandon despite mountains of observations that falsify it
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Dramatic examples: macroeconomics and nutrition science totally fail to predict anything, but are still going strong as disciplines.
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If they don't predict anything, what's the utility of having them around? Placeholders for eventual successor disciplines?
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Would modern physics also count? We already know it has to be wrong, (cf list of unsolved problems), but we don't discard it.
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Every science counts. There is no theory (so far as I know) that does not have counterexamples. That doesn’t mean they are wrong!
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