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wizzwizz4yesterday at 6:19 PM1 replyview on HN

In the limit, there's no difference between a scientific fact and an unfalsified hypothesis. I'm not aware of anyone falsifying this one, and it's over five years old, so I'm going to say "scientific fact".

At this point, even if it is falsified, that falsification will probably take the form "here is an exception to the general rule", like how we still use Newton's law of gravitation even though it was falsified by Urbain Le Verrier's 1859 observations of Mercury.


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ameliusyesterday at 6:23 PM

If a hypothesis has not been falsified that does not mean there is consensus around it in the scientific community.

Your statement can also be applied to the inverse of the hypothesis, after all.

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