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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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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Nothing, in my opinion! They both should die. See https://meaningness.com/nutrition-resigns … andhttps://meaningness.com/nutrition
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