An analysis of 70 papers shows that most scientific research does not advance by "falsification," as philosopher Karl Popper made famous. Ironically, falsification has itself been falsified. Science ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The world has been paying lots of attention ...

Karl Popper's "principle of falsifiability" is one of the few philosophical ideas that physicists regularly mention. But science is far more complex than it suggests, says Robert P Crease As a ...

Where do you place the boundary between “science” and “pseudoscience”? The question is more than academic. The answers we give have consequences—in part because, as health policy scholar Timothy ...

I began to discern the paradox lurking at the heart of Karl Popper's career when, prior to interviewing him in 1992, I asked other philosophers about him. Queries of this kind usually elicit dull, ...