Silk for calde blog: Wolfe thesis

Jeff Wilson · 19 Dec 2009, 16:25 · from 2009-December.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:25:28 -0600
Subject: (urth) Silk for calde blog: Wolfe thesis
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Adam Thornton wrote:
> On Dec 19, 2009, at 3:57 AM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
>> Unobservable phenomena and unfalsifiable hypotheses are scientific in neither the current sense nor that used a thousand years ago.
> 
> And so Jeff Wilson was torn limb from limb by an angry mob of string theorists.

As long as they don't eat the limbs

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