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This means youre free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). In this sense much alternative medicine shares a psychology with psychics, horoscopes, UFO abductions and so on. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. Once the testable parts of these beliefs have shown that they have no effect, it’s not uncommon to see the special pleading start (well, qi doesn’t respond well to science). Homeopathy, reiki, crystal healing, “ancient” Chinese remedies, faith healing. However acupuncture has been tested time and time again and shown to perform no better than placebo ( toothpicks, anyone?). Afterall, you were doing something physical to the body. I’ll admit, I used to think there was a possibility that it worked. Speaking of magic pins and the lack of evidence, I’m sure we’ve all heard of acupuncture. It’s a circular belief with no way of being evidentially disrupted. Any attempt to engage with these pin-fundamentalists is just met with yelling about how we’re too close-minded to see the pin, but it’s there if we want to accept the truth. In fact: there’s a conspiracy between government, scientists, big Pharma, and erm, whoever else thinks the pin does not exist. They believe in the pin and that is enough. To a believer of this magic and balloon-friendly pin, we can not convince them that there is no evidence of the pin. The abstract for my latest submission to Nature. However, what we can say is that it effectively does not exist. It is impossible to say definitively that it does not exist. Assuming this magic pin exists, it exerts no influence at all on anything in the universe. The idea that this invisible pin which nobody else can touch or feel will pass through the balloon without popping it is not testable. The idea that a metal pin will pop a balloon is testable. For something to be truly untestable, it must have no interaction with any part of the universe which can be measured. Testability means that there is a discernible interaction with the universe, to some smaller or lesser degree, leading to a change from the starting conditions. If something is truly untestable then it may as well not exist. If something is unfalsifiable then it renders that thing completely untestable. Not even Pauli’s Wiki page.įalsifiability is a key concept in science. Statement C, however, can not be tested or supported by any available evidence. Both statements A and B are, though utterly opposite, perfectly testable, based on this post’s preamble. Ok, so… what the hell am I talking about? Well, I wanted to give an, admittedly vapid, example of the difference between testable propositions and untestable ideas.
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