unfalsifiability

Krugman truly is the master of the unfalsifiability fallacy.

Unemployment still at 10%. [pause] Yipe. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2010

This sort of thing debases evolution into a tautology: "Survivors survive," is how I think Karl Popper put it in pointing out its basic unfalsifiability.

April 13th, 2009 m_francis 2009

Falsifiability and unfalsifiability are really popular buzz words.

Again, there is absolutely no teleology involved 2007

No, it is in no way an admission to unfalsifiability: it gives you a very distinct alternative hypothesis.

Teach the Controversy James F. McGrath 2008

So that leaves history instead, which – like religion – has the wonderful attribute of complete unfalsifiability, at least in this lifetime.www. regressiveantidote.net

History Is The Last Refuge of Scoundrels 2007

This leaves me with a particularly bad taste of unfalsifiability about the whole idea....there is nothing that we can do, see, or measure that would indicate that we are in a simulation, since by the very nature of a simulation, we cannot detect whether it's a simulation or the "real thing".

The Speculist: Speaking of Cosmology 2007

And yet the M&E06 model has a hint of Popperian unfalsifiability about it.

The 2006 Hurricane Season « Climate Audit 2006

This will require a redefinition of science to avoid this “straw man” as many design advocates refer to this untestability-unfalsifiability-unpublishability of original research issue.

Win in Dover! - The Panda's Thumb 2005

Cute, but in my view Krugman under-estimates the unfalsifiability of starve-the-beast thinking.

December 2005 2005

Cute, but in my view Krugman under-estimates the unfalsifiability of starve-the-beast thinking.

Tax Cut Zombies 2005