Friday, November 22, 2013

Actual Science

Theories which are explanatory cannot predict everything, or they are actually useless. This stellar event and the scientific reaction to it demonstrate how non-ideological science can and does work:
“Some of our theories are just going down the drain,” said Charles Dermer, an astrophysicist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and a member of one of the teams reporting on their observations of the burst, known as GRB 130427A.

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