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Locking the Gates of Dentistry: Bret Speaks with Dr. Mike Mew
DarkHorse Podcast
Science Only Works if the Hypothesis Proceeds the Test
Science only works if the hypothesis proceeds the test. If you came up with the hypothesis after you collected a bunch of data that did not get collected in light of a hypothesis, then you haven't done science. The people who are doing this supposedly high powered empirical work to earn the right to do the theory have at best a very distant relationship with the philosophy of science that makes the whole thing work. It's an absurdity that the clinicians who had the actual experience were sidelined by basically like official pronouncements. We don't even know how much of our literature is polluted by the fact that even the things that look theoretical aren't because they're, you know, they're a posteriori.
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