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My good friend Sean Carroll took a lot of flak recently for answering this year's Edge question, "What scientific idea is ready for retirement?," with "Falsifiability", and for using string theory and the multiverse as examples of why science needs to break out of its narrow Popperian cage. For more, seethis blog post of Sean's,...
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It is now looking like vaccines are less effective in people 50 or older, who make up almost all coronavirus deaths. Vaccine effectiveness against death is more like 79% than 100%. That aspect of vaccines will not live up to its hype. Dying from COVID-19 will remain a problem. I don't know how this will...
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It was pointed out to me recently that the homeopathy looks more like a religious community than a scientific one. Yet many homeopaths and their apologists say that they represent a new scientific or medical paradigm; implicit in this claim is that their community is scientific. Examining thisquestion gives me the chance to talk about...
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