Scientists often study hypotheses that they know to be false. This creates an interpretive problem for Bayesians because the probability assigned to a hypothesis is typically interpreted as the ...

Professor Franklin's research is on the history and philosophy of science, with particular emphasis on the role of experiment in physics. He has done historical studies on parity conconservation, ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Just about 20 years ago, I abandoned a career ...