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The two training ships seemed like pretty suggestive experimental evidence. Just not fully controlled laboratory evidence.
by hyperpallium 7y ago
The two training ships seemed like pretty suggestive experimental evidence. Just not fully controlled laboratory evidence.
- dalbasal 7y agoIn purely philosophical terms, you could say it's "scientific." But... in practice science is an institution as much as it is a method. In that sense "unscientific" means that something doesn't come from the scientific institution/culture.. regardless of who is on what side of a Karl Popper test of science.
- mannykannot 7y agoI would say that on very practical terms, one could call it scientific, taking advantage of a situation that made possible an trial that could not have been approved as a fully-controlled clinical experiment, given the official opposition to Takaki's ideas. Takski's hypothesis also met Popper's criterion for falsifiability, and the Tsukuba could have suffered similar beri-beri rates as did the Ryujo.