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Agreed, it is only enough to qualify it as a scientific hypothesis. The article, and the critics, are right to point out that it too early to give it the status
by philipov 9y ago
Agreed, it is only enough to qualify it as a scientific hypothesis. The article, and the critics, are right to point out that it too early to give it the status of scientific truth.
I think that it is overly polemical to say that inflation is not a scientific theory because the technical definition of a theory is hazy for most people, but calling something unscientific is crystal clear, and this is misleading.
- badosu 9y agoI fully agree with you, if news written like this influences lay people, they'll hold theories like General Relativity, Quantum Field Theory or even Evolution to the same standards as the next trendy, and almost impossible to falsify, subject of study...