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RE: Popperian falsification

> >Are you following Blaug to accept Popperian
> >falsification, a criterion that makes _all_ social science
> (or almost all) worthless?
>
> Not quite all  social science:  the social science of
> astrology makes twelve
> falsifiable predictions every morning in my newspaper and
> thus qualifies as
> a science on Popperian grounds.

hey, if you read the astrological forecast in THE ONION, you'll find that
the predictions always come true! (see
http://www.theonion.com/onion3804/index.html)
JD
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