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Nature 389, 434-435 (2 October 1997) | doi:10.1038/38867

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Nonfalsifiable hypothesis

A. K. Dewdney1

  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
    e-mail: Email: akd@csd.uwo.ca

In his review of my book Yes, We Have No Neutrons, Walter Gratzer adopts a dismissive tone that seems to have more to do with my having chosen examples of science-gone-wrong that were not to his particular taste than with the very substantive issues involved (Nature 388, 36; 1997). It is most instructive to watch how research goes off the rails when scientists who think they have made an earth-shattering discovery forget the elements of good method.