On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:50:44 -0700, "Devine, James" wrote:
>I noticed >that a major element of Crews' critique of >Freudianism (in the New York REVIEW >OF BOOKS a few years ago) is that it can't be >falsified (following Popper's >criterion). Unfortunately, this seems to apply to >_all_ of social science (and >to Popper). But as I have pointed out before, not, of course, to the paradigmatic example of a Popperian social science, astrology. Unlike any other social scientists, the astrologers provide me with twelve succinct, specific and easily falsifiable predictions every day with my daily newspaper. dd
