
Episode 61: A Critical Rationalist Defense of Corroboration
The Theory of Anything
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The Importance of Testing New Theories in Science
Brett: When you come up with a new theory, there's always going to be some counter example that you can't explain. So long as old data fits the new theory better, it is already the best theory and its status will not change by doing new tests,. I mean, if you look at at least how scientists looked at this in real life, they certainly did not see it that way, right? To them, they thought that Einstein's theory was wrong, right? In fact, it was so controversial that he didn't win the Nobel Prize for it. He won the Nobel prize for the photoelectric effect because his general relativity was considered too controversial by most scientists. We
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