Example Sentences

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They’re completely removed from testability in laboratory settings.

From The Verge • Dec. 17, 2021

Physicists’ seeming lack of concern with empirical evidence and testability, Ellis argues, is bad not only for physics but for science as whole.

From Scientific American • Jul. 1, 2018

He says autoethnographic studies cannot claim to have "falsifiability, testability, representability, extrapolation, prediction, and other conditions securing reliable scientific enquiry".

From BBC • May 9, 2017

Hawking, on the other hand, works in a rarified subfield of gravitational physics, far removed from the realm of immediate testability.

From Slate • Feb. 13, 2014

A vocal critic of string theory, Woit has long argued that this research area has attracted a disproportionate amount of funding, despite lying beyond the range of direct experimental testability.

From Nature • Jun. 12, 2013