empirical
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Duesberg’s intellectual journey points to an eternal question in science: At what point does a theory become so discredited and the empirical evidence against it so strong, that its advocates should be ignored?
From Los Angeles Times
It’s been decades since this view enjoyed strong empirical support, if it ever did.
“There wasn’t a robust empirical analysis of: How do child care prices affect fertility rates?”
From Salon
This framework yields clear empirical predictions—ones that line up closely with what researchers have since found.
The study, "An empirical view of the extended atmosphere and inner envelope of the asymptotic giant branch star R Doradus II. Constraining the dust properties with radiative transfer modelling," is published in Astronomy & Astrophysics.
From Science Daily
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