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Re:Just because it’s falsifiable doesn’t mean it’s good science by AndrewDucker on Friday February 01, 2019 @06:59AM (#19053418)
When people are proven wrong, does the conversation move forward, or do large swathes of people grip onto their beliefs anyway?
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Re:Just because it’s falsifiable doesn’t mean it’s good science by presscast on Friday February 01, 2019 @07:17AM (#19053497)
That has nothing to do with whether or not something is a science.
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Re:Just because it’s falsifiable doesn’t mean it’s good science by TheOtherHobbes on Friday February 01, 2019 @10:13AM (#19054704)
It is when the people who don't move on are the people doing the "science."
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Re:Just because it’s falsifiable doesn’t mean it’s good science by presscast on Friday February 01, 2019 @10:41AM (#19054959)
No, even then it has nothing to do with whether or not the subject of debate is scientific.

Bad deontology on the part of an individual doesn't discredit the field as a whole.

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