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Re:Portions of the brain fall asleep and wake back up all th... by titzer on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @08:29AM (#13114410)
AFAIK string theory hasn't made any testable predictions beyond the standard model, but the standard model itself does have testable predictions that have so far all held up. So string theory is just as falsifiable as the standard model.

I don't know about the social sciences. That's painting with a pretty broad brush, IMHO.

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Re:Portions of the brain fall asleep and wake back up all th... by tomrod on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @12:41PM (#13116546)
True, and I was bit tongue-in-cheek as a social scientist myself. Replicability of many studies is a long-standing issue.
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