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A thoughtful article on the philosophy of science, and its attitude to anomalies is here
Link is long dead. The original webpage to which the dead link pointed can be retrieved via the Wayback Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120229151058/http://paraview.com/features/bauer.htm
The published version of the essay appeared in:
Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 459–463, 2001
... and a PDF file of the published article can be accessed at:
https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/15/jse_15_4_bauer.pdf
Are surprises anomalies? Are anomalies surprising?
In passing, the author describes Skeptics as "science groupies", who find all anomalies surprising!
Link is long dead. The original webpage to which the dead link pointed can be retrieved via the Wayback Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120229151058/http://paraview.com/features/bauer.htm
The published version of the essay appeared in:
Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 459–463, 2001
... and a PDF file of the published article can be accessed at:
https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/15/jse_15_4_bauer.pdf
Are surprises anomalies? Are anomalies surprising?
In passing, the author describes Skeptics as "science groupies", who find all anomalies surprising!
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