taelor comments on Open Thread, July 1-15, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: taelor 01 July 2013 10:01:34PM 3 points [-]

Karl Popper came up with the Falsifiability Principle as a direct response to watching Marxists, Freudians, and others do exactly this.