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Your great achievements in science exclude all real world applications (engineering, pharmaceuticals, etc), where the critical details of a hypothesis don't fit on a t-shirt



Note that I said "science", not "engineering". Engineering is driven by usefulness and profit.

Falsificationism isn't a stupid idea; it's even useful at a personal improvement level. But pharma or materials research use it because it tends to lead to good results, not because it's the very definition of what's worthwhile knowledge.




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