Cores & Protective Belts in Amyloid Thinking
When is it time to give up a scientific theory and embrace a new one?? Three philosophers of science had opinions about this. Karl Popper laid the foundation of the modern view of science that a theory should have testable and falsifiable predictions. For example: if we have a theory claiming that all swans are white, then the observation of one black swan is enough to falsify our white swan theory. This observation should force us to adopt a more general theory that explains the phenomena of swans being black or white. Another philosopher of science, Thomas Kuhn, objected. He argued that looking at the history of science; this is not how things always worked. Scientists do not abandon a theory at the first negative test. Instead, science progresses in phases. The phase of “normal science”, where negative results are not rejected, but attempts are made to incorporate them within the old theoretical paradigm. Then comes the phase of “scientific revolution”, where a “par...