Falsifiability (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, December 18, 2014, 18:45 (3627 days ago) @ GateKeeper

GK: wow, you just proved my point.
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> "contrary to the scientific method"? wow!!!!!!!!!!! nutz. unreasonable people waste tax payers money thus we make up copout terms like " Falsifiability".
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> example: http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Falsifiability.html
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> The claim "no human can live forever" when investigated properly does not need the word at all. It is only needed to shut down a literalist.
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> GK: when you say "does not belong in science." do you mean textbooks or people have to stop trying to engineer experiments to find out? Like the LHC?-All this discussion means is that theories have to be tested. When not testable they remain entirely speculation. How long life can be lived is not an appropriate example of the principle, but an example of what does not need testing.