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Letter: An impossible criterion for theory

Published 6 April 2016

From Tim Hopkins

I was flabbergasted to read Jim Baggott and Daniel Cossins suggesting that one criterion for replacing the scientific method of experimental verification of predictions could be TINA: that “there is no alternative” to the theory (27 February, p 38). How can you ever be sure there is no alternative? This criterion is logically impossible to meet.

Rockville, Maryland, US

Issue no. 3068 published 9 April 2016

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