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The Joy of Science, with Jim Al-Khalili
Intelligence Squared
Isoem's Razor - The Simplest Explanations Are the Best
One of the theories you discuss in the book is isoem's razor, which lots of listeners will know, the simplest explanations are the best. And an i want you to explain why it's more useful than the oem, very old theory. Sometimes things are just more complicated than we would like them to be. Appreciating it is ta lesson from science that some s the explanations that we like, the simplest ones that we will prefer to be true, aren't necessarily true.
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