Falsificationism falsifies itself: it is a theory scientists refuse to abandon despite mountains of observations that falsify it
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(Falsificationism is the theory that scientists abandon a theory when they find evidence against it. This essentially never happens.)
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Replying to @ArtirKel
Empirically, failure to explain evidence never leads to abandoning a theory. Only a new, better theory does.
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Replying to @Meaningness
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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Replying to @ArtirKel
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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Replying to @Meaningness
QFT? Does it make any false predictions that do not match observation?
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It’s incompatible with general relativity, I gather. (That’s currently a problem at the level of theory rather than observation, though.)
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