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One can falsify claims without having to present alternatives. It works like this: http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20131031.png http://www.smbc-comics.com/c
by duncan_bayne 11y ago
One can falsify claims without having to present alternatives. It works like this:
http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20131031.png http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20131031.png
- scarmig 11y agoIt's unclear what you're even arguing for. Naive falsificationism? Even Popper didn't argue for that. Science works by building theories and programmes of research. A single counterexample, contrary to what you seem to think, doesn't invalidate a theory--it's driven by multiple lines of evidence. And ESR's strategy of digging through comments of source code to quote out of context fragments doesn't even approach providing a single counterexample, particularly when he admits that he's in a quest to show that climate scientists are a conspiracy, part Gaian-religionists and part KGB psyops. Like, really.
- duncan_bayne 11y agoYou wrote "forcing him to make concrete predictions". I took that to mean that you considered his criticism of climate models to be invalid because he hasn't produced better models himself. Perhaps I mistook your meaning.