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Karl Popper (Jul 28, 1902 - Sep 17, 1994)
The book Karl popper translated, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, in 1934 is when the idea he had on falsifiability and pseudoscience first started. Karl Popper observed Sigmund Freud and his and his study on Psychoanalysis. Freuds take was extremely low risk, making it easy to find information supporting his theory practically anywhere and everywhere. Where this seemed like a virtual certainty and seemed like evidence was everywhere, Popper stated that this was pseudoscience. -
Karl Popper (Jul 28, 1902 - Sep 17, 1994)
Upon observing Albert Einstein he observed that Einstein's theory and approach to science was extremely high stakes and/or risky. Popper had noticed that the work could be easily proven false, hence falsifiability. He was interested in why someone would take the risk of being proven wrong, and how falsifiability would affect the world of science. -
Karl Popper (Jul 28, 1902 - Sep 17, 1994)
Karl Poppers Observations of Einstein's and Freuds work led to validating falsifiability and pseudoscience making the outlook on all science extremely different. Now ,with this information, scientists can identify science from pseudoscience. As well as identify if a theory is falsifiable, and this began leading the world every day to the actual truth. without Poppers research, pseudoscience would run rampant and the truth would be much harder to find through science. -
Karl Popper (Jul 28, 1902 - Sep 17, 1994)