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Scientific Irrationality with Michael Strevens [Idea Machines #43]

Idea Machines

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The Iron Law and String Theory and Evolutionary Psychology

I feel like there are a number of domains that people would think of as science now but that sort of buy your buy the iron law would not count. Like string theory being one of them where it's very hard to come up with evidence to test their theories. The point of science is to is to develop theories and models and so on and then to empirically test them, he says.

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