Can a theory that isn’t completely testable still be useful to physics? What determines if an idea is legitimately scientific or not? This question has been debated by philosophers and historians of ...

A critical issue in the public debates over science is often what the philosophers consider the demarcation question: how do you mark the boundary between the scientific and other fields of inquiry?

An analysis of 70 papers shows that most scientific research does not advance by "falsification," as philosopher Karl Popper made famous. Ironically, falsification has itself been falsified. Science ...

Karl Popper's "principle of falsifiability" is one of the few philosophical ideas that physicists regularly mention. But science is far more complex than it suggests, says Robert P Crease As a ...

J.B.S. Haldane, one of the founders of modern evolutionary biology theory, was reportedly asked what it would take for him to lose faith in the theory of evolution and is said to have replied, “Fossil ...

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