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Alamo Dude's avatar

Wait…what! Consensus, computer models and A I generated animations based on best guesses is not Settled Science? But…the experts told us….

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Stephen Due's avatar

Correction? "Viruses don't exist" is falsifiable - by finding a virus. However "viruses exist" is not falsifiable in the absence of viruses, any more than "fairies exist" is falsifiable in the absence of fairies. Of course, the fact that such statements are not falsifiable at a particullar time in history does not mean they are not true. Hence they give rise to hypotheses which science can test. The hypothesis that "germs" (seeds of disease) exist was a valid hypothesis that was eventually shown to be true by Louis Pasteur and others. The hypothesis that "phlogiston" exists was eventually abandoned in view of the discovery of oxygen (see the excellent Wikipedia article for details).

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