• asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It’s extremely hard to disprove things in general as opposed to proving them, unless you’re dealing with math or logic.

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      Basically, repeat the experiment under a wide range of conditions, and show that the conditions for success, if any, are far beyond the original claim. I always loved the ‘mythbusters’ approach: if one bible can’t stop a bullet, how about two bibles? ten? where is the cutoff between true and false?