Julian Bradley wrote:
> At 23:00 07/03/2007, you wrote:
>> Mary Hawking wrote:
>> > Scientific "laws" - which are hypotheses - only require *one*
>> > inexplicable situation to be disproved ...
>>
>> Mostly theories, actually.
>
> There is nothing better (yet) but they are still theories.
Theory in science means something, hypothesis means something else.
The meme that "it is only a theory" is one propagated by
climate-denialists, tobacco companies, creationists and the like.
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