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How theories get formed: Yeah Science!


How theories get formed Yeah Science

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Yeah science

Nice, though I'm annoyed that people still get Occam's Razor backwards.  Theories with fewer parameters are better because they're easier to prove *false*.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor

I'm sorry, but "more likely to be true" isn't really a scientific statement, as the last panel makes clear.  If we could get over that, we'd have a lot less silly debates.

The most important rule in science: Correlation is not causation.

I do like your simple statement of Occam's razor:

Less parameters in an experiment means easier to prove *false*.

If there was something I could wish for today's children, it would be scientific literacy.

bill nye quote

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