Fahsing point outs that criminal investigations are generally abductive rather than deductive. “Try to eliminate as many explanations or lines of inquiry as you can. Just like in science, theories can be truly tested only through falsification.”
Tag: falsification
Science writer: Multiverse is based on zero empirical evidence
Jim Baggott doesn’t like ID either but he also doesn’t appear to understand it.
Another attack on Karl Popper’s falsification concept
Disparagement of falsification in science has come up quite a bit in recent years, mainly sponsored — we think —by people whose ideas are unfalsifiable in principle and therefore only doubtfully science.
Trying to subtly deflate Karl Popper’s falsification—again
The war on falsification is like the war on math. Causes with nonsense or destruction at their heart cannot succeed while such values remain in place.
Sabine Hossenfelder on the flight from falsifiability
Hossenfelder is right to be concerned. Some cosmologists would like to dump falsifiability as a criterion. If they could, they would remove an obstacle to demanding public belief in ideas like the multiverse, ideas that cannot be falsified because there is no evidence for them.