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Is Science Reaching Its Limits? — John Horgan

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Importance of Falsifiability in Journalism

I don't know if there's an easy solution to this problem of being against dogmatism without being dogmatic. A lot of people have written to me about this and they think that they've figured it out. But I don't think it's solvable, certainly not in any easy way. What's the best suggestion you've heard? Oh, God. Well, what Popper himself said. He went on to say that his falsifiability principle is at the heart of his anti-dogmatism and skepticism,. It's not a scientific principle, which is the kind of thing that needs to be tested.

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