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Unfalsifiable (adj) means Impossible to prove wrong, though not necessarily correct.

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Impossible to prove wrong, though not necessarily correct.

"Popper introduced the so-called ‘demarcation problem’ of identifying what distinguishes pseudoscience from science. Popper's suggestion, as I explain below, is that, unlike real science, pseudoscience is unfalsifiable." — Kevin McCain, Kostas Kampourakis (2019)

"Conspiracy theories are designed to be unfalsifiable: every criticism can be dismissed as "whitewashing by the conspirers", and every concerns can be summarized as "part of the greater conspiracy"."

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