“One of the first requirements for a good scientific theory is that it must be falsifiable under certain conditions - theories that explain everything explain nothing......”
I see someone else reads Karl Popper besides me on these boards
Too often conservatives try to make economic arguments against the philosophy of the left. Read some Karl Popper, it will change the way you talk to your leftist friends
While I guess the original discussion of falsification in scientific theories came from Popper, I was reminded of it in a recent exchange in the “American Scientist” about the uses and abuses of simulation in scientific research - all of the “models” climate scientists use to predict climate change are really just simulations, and one of the primary problems with simulations is that they tend to focus on only one variable, in this case CO2, while letting all sorts of other variables run free - in fact climate scientists have no idea of the full universe of variables which control long-range climate, let alone how they control climate or interact with each other - so they can jigger their primary factor however they need to show the results they want, without regard to how other inputs may change the picture - to call climate science junk science is disrespectful to real junk science......