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“Falsification is a big improvement on induction as a description of the scientific method, but it is still only a crude approximation—a given observation usually only falsifies a theory given a host of background assumptions. So there is no simple, one-off test for when something is science:”

David Wallace, Philosophy of Physics: A Very Short Introduction
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