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Popper was a cool guy and his ideas on falsifiability definitely moved the needle and gave us a robust scientific method. But… what do you do when you no longe

Popper was a cool guy and his ideas on falsifiability definitely moved the needle and gave us a robust scientific method. But… what do you do when you no longer can directly measure or even worse: the measurements impact the state of the system you are trying to observe? I think for things like quantum mechanics and other areas that are hard to observe directly (neuroscience comes to mind) there has to be a revision of how Popper’s principles are applied.

GavinMcG 4y ago
That revision is probably expressed in Lakatos's view on "research programmes" that may have core non-falsifiable theories and that continue being useful even when scientists know something is off about the model as a whole: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lakatos/#ImprPoppScie https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lakatos/#ImprPoppScie