Changes

Jump to navigation Jump to search

Falsifiable (view source)

Revision as of 22:06, July 31, 2021

869 bytes added ,  22:06, July 31, 2021
As of July 31, 2021, only 356 reported court decisions have cited "falsifiable" or "falsibility", and only one of those decisions was by the U.S. Supreme Court, and that was in dissent
Line 48: Line 48:  
Furthermore, if a religion makes mutually exclusive claims, falsifying that religion is a simple matter of applying a [[reductio ad absurdum]].
 
Furthermore, if a religion makes mutually exclusive claims, falsifying that religion is a simple matter of applying a [[reductio ad absurdum]].
    +
== Court decisions ==
 +
 +
Left-leaning courts have been hostile to the doctrine of falsifiability.  As of July 31, 2021, only 356 reported court decisions have cited "falsifiable" or "falsibility", and only one of those decisions was by the [[U.S. Supreme Court]], and that was in dissent:
 +
{{cquote|Following this sentence are three quotations from treatises, which not only speak of empirical testing, but one of which states that the "'criterion of the scientific status of a theory is its falsifiability, or refutability, or testability.'" Ibid.
 +
 +
I defer to no one in my confidence in federal judges; but I am at a loss to know what is meant when it is said that the scientific status of a theory depends on its "falsifiability," and I suspect some of them will be, too.}}
 +
''Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharm., Inc.'', 509 U.S. 579, 600 (1993) (Rehnquist, C.J., dissenting)
 
== See also ==
 
== See also ==
  
Aschlafly
Anthony, Irenaeus, Siteadmin, apieditor, Bureaucrats, Check users, nsAm_Govt_101RO, nsAm_Govt_101RW, nsAm_Govt_101_ta, nsJudgesRO, nsJudgesRW, nsJudges_talkRO, nsJudges_talkRW, nsTeam2RO, nsTeam2RW, nsTeam2_talkRO, nsTeam2_talkRW, oversight, Administrators
126,204

edits

Retrieved from "https://www.conservapedia.com/Special:MobileDiff/1783730"

Navigation menu