Falsification Principle (#415)

Theories are meant to be challenged, and no belief should be impervious to scrutiny

Karl Popper, one of the 20th century's greatest scientific philosophers, is perhaps best known for the falsification principle, a foundation of the modern scientific method. 

The basis of Popper’s falsification principle is this: in order for a theory to be objectively accepted as scientific, it needs to be able to be proven false. Popper believed that n…