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Comment author: nazgulnarsil3 02 April 2009 10:01:10AM 0 points [-]

the likely result is that pundits would start taking more care to make their predictions untestable.

this is already the norm 1) make qualitative prediction 2) reject criticism with "no true scotsman" fallacy (x wasn't really an example of y because z)