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Fictional archaeology isn't history, is it? Anyway, there are no experiments in history, therefore any "theory" is untestable. History is... I'm missing a wor
by 08-15 8y ago
Fictional archaeology isn't history, is it?
Anyway, there are no experiments in history, therefore any "theory" is untestable. History is... I'm missing a word here, but historians are scholars, not scientists.
- madhadron 8y agoNote that the best evidence for many things comes from naturally occurring cases that look like experiments. The link between smoking and lung cancer is most definitively shown by twin studies, for example, which are purely observational.
- jinpa_zangpo 8y agoThere are no experiments in astronomy either.
- 08-15 8y agoThank you for making my point.