Science doesn’t follow a mythic positivist ideal but the plural scientific methods described by Feyerabend: a mixture of empiricism, flights of fancy, intuition, aesthetics, doggedness, and jealousy. Scientific theories are underdetermined. Any finite set of facts can support multiple theories, and for a long time the available facts were equally explained by geostationary or geomobile models.
This marvelously addresses the current HN thread Should We Stop Believing Malcolm Gladwell?.
This marvelously addresses the current HN thread Should We Stop Believing Malcolm Gladwell?.