The idea that the universe is expanding was first proposed by Edwin Hubble in the late 1920s and has been repeatedly backed ...

This week, a group of about 100 physicists and philosophers have gathered in Munich to reassess a question at the heart of science: “Why trust a theory?” In an opinion piece by George Ellis ...

I am often asked by psychologists and other scientists if there is “empirical support” for the Tree of Knowledge System.My first response is: “Absolutely. Look around.

Richard’s examples for this non-empirical evaluation—arguments commonly made by string theorists in favor of their theory—are (1) the absence of alternative explanations, (2) the use of ...

George Mason University economist Bryan Caplan tips his hat to the famous Card/Krueger study, the ur-source of the belief that despite what all economic theory would tell you, the minimum wage ...

The theory is subject to a number of attacks. First, there is the question of whether any of it is actually true. Do patrons use nonprofit status as a signal of “trustworthiness” and does it ...

You can calculate empirical probability by creating a ratio between the number of ways an event happened to the number of opportunities for it to have happened. In other words, 75 heads out of 100 ...

Theory and Assumptions The CIT is statutorily levied on the earnings of corporations, but corporations are just legal structures that bring together shareholders, workers, and consumers.

Darwin knew that by supporting an empirical theory of evolution as opposed to the Biblical account of Creation he was asking for trouble. Two weeks before the book’s publication, he sent letters ...