Popper and phylogenetics, a misguided rendezvous

A misguided lead.

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Misguided Policy?

Social Explanation and Popper

Karl Popper A Centenary Assessment

Popper and the Omics

and other-omics generate unprecedented amounts of experimental data about cells or tissues under certain conditions. However, from an epistemological point of view, merely fitting data into a model to explain observations is not sufficient; science should strive to describe simple and logical theoretical systems that are testable and that enable predictions (Popper, 1959). This paper tries to a...