Bad sciences tries to prove an idea right. Good science tries to prove an idea wrong. When you have an idea, do you look for examples which support it or examples which disprove it?
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Agreed. You just put it more succinctly than I did.
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Oh, just realized who you are. Big fan of your books. I like when actual science is used in science fiction.
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wow! cool, thanks!
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Mathematical theories can be actually proven with the right axioms. Science is testing human theories against measured reality and checking if p<.01 or whatever (that is, the odds of the measurement being due to random chance are 1% or less).
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scroll up this is a thread about science in that context, everything I said is correct
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