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I'm not saying this idea is wrong, but it comes with a large grain of salt. Like everything else in the world, 90% of science is crap. If there is no proposed f
by Tomminn 8y ago
I'm not saying this idea is wrong, but it comes with a large grain of salt. Like everything else in the world, 90% of science is crap. If there is no proposed falsifiability criterion, there is no science here.
- Nomentatus 8y agoI share your discouragement with the present state of "science" (see the Replication Crisis) but the trouble with your comment that it applies to everything ever written, not this article in particular, not to mention that Theodore Sturgeon said it first, as a still more general rule.
- Tomminn 8y agoI assumed the HN crowd was familiar with the fact that "90% of everything is crap" is someone else's idea. This was probably not a good assumption to make.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoEven if they are, framing matters. Your framing sounded like "this is my (ugly) opinion" not like "Everyone knows this common saying."
- Nomentatus 8y agoSo familiar, so why state it without any special relevance, much less without attribution? Why waste our time then if everybody knows it?
- chrisallenlane 8y agoI don't know why people are giving you a hard time here. The quote is widely-known, and I appreciated your remark about the troubling lack of falsifiability criterion.
- Nomentatus 8y agoSee elsewhere here, there's no shortage of experiments to be done that could be determinative in this case. Also, Karl Popper's rule is a great rule of thumb, it really is; but there's an immense bibliography in philosophy of science about whether it's a shoe that fits all circumstances.