HPS100H1 Lecture 6: HPS100 Lecture 6
19 Jan 2016
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Theory supernatural agency: witch craft, tarot cards divination reads signs and omens with, alchemy, genetics, homeopathy, substance that causes a disease in healthy people, can cure disease in sick, like cures like . Conclusion: some scientific theories are part of contemporary scientific mosaic // others are scientific but are not accepted (no longer accepted, or to be accepted in the future) a scientific theory cannot be a universal solution. The characteristics of process of scientific change can have a universal answer. It is based on experience//but that experience can have nothing to do with science. After a comet, there have been a lot of disasters, such as . Fire of london: the comet of 1066 was followed by the norman conquest of, the comet of 1456 was followed by a deadly series of, the comet of 1664 preceded the great plague and the great. Based on experience is extremely vague, for it allows for cherry picking only favourable evidence.
