Is Your Science Legit?

Legit question.

Here are the 6 Criteria you need to know in order to determine whether a theory is scientific or not.

1. We have to accept that searching for confirmations of our theory is actually really easy… too easy.
2. Confirmations should only be considered scientific if it is the result of a risky prediction, or a hypothesis that was meant to refute the theory, but instead confirmed it.
3. Every good scientific theory is a prohibition: it forbids certain things to happen. The more a theory forbids, the better it is.
4. A theory which cannot be refuted or is irrefutable is not scientific.
5. Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify or refute it, not confirm it.
6. No ad hoc explanations of a theory to escape falsifying evidence. We can’t reinterpret our theory in such a way that it escapes refutation.

This list was created by philosopher Karl Popper.

Citations:
Popper, Karl Raimund. Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge by Karl R. Popper. Routledge, 2002.

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