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> If a theory isn't predictive, it isn't falsifiable. If it isn't falsifiable, then the theory isn't truly scientific.

That's an overly anemic view of science. Scientific theories have both predictive and explanatory power. Interpretations of QM don't change the former, but they do change the latter.

Copenhagen, favoured by this article's author for some unfathomable reason, has little explanatory power. Many worlds and Bohmian mechanics have excellent explanatory power, and their predictive power equals Copenhagen.




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