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Comment author: Peterdjones 08 October 2012 08:19:22PM 2 points [-]

According to Traditional Science, retrospective predictions don't count—so why bother making them?

Who told you that? Einstein's retrodiction of the perihelion shift of Mercury is an oft-quoted example from a century back.