Abuse Of Falsifiability

By Leo Gura - June 20, 2026

The following is an example of scientists misusing science. I mean that Sabine Hossenfelder and Alexander Unzicker are both misusing the notion of falsifability under the  guise of “real science”. They dismiss theories such as string theory and loop quantum gravity under the rationale that they are unfalsifiable and therefore “unscientific”, however, it is impossible to know whether a theory is unfalsifiable. Just because you can’t imagine how to, or lack the technology to falsify it today, does not mean that it is unfalsifiable. You can’t dismiss a theory or perspective just because it feels unfalsifiable to you. And that’s all it is in this case, a feeling. So the irony here is that these scientists are criticizing what they feel is bad science, but their criticism IS the bad science. It is bad science to close your mind to a theory just because you lack the imagination to see how it might be falsified. Scientists misuse this notion of unfalsifiability commonly. It is just closedmindedness. It is a highly rationalized “scientific”-flavored closedmindedness. This is a real-world example of how rationalism turns into self-deception. An example of the stupidity of overly rational people.

This is what I mean when I say science is unscientific. The scientist “cries out in pain as he strikes you.” Any time you hear a scientist cry out “unscientific!”, you should immediately ask, “But is your crying ‘unscientific!’ itself scientific?” Almost always the answer will be: No, it’s just a feeling.

Calling a perspective “crap” without scientifically demonstrating that it is crap, is of course unscientific. However, most scientists feel perfectly comfortable doing this precisely as they cry about others being unscientific. It is a sick kind of gaslighting that comes from epistemic sloppiness.

Perhaps string theory is crap, but the issue is, they don’t actually know that, they are just guessing and calling it science. This is what happens when scientists refuse to take philosophy seriously. The rejection of philosophy guarantees bad philosophy. I wanted to show you a real-world example of that, so now you have it.

Understanding Reality requires way more intelligence than just looking at a perspective and saying, “This looks unfalsifiable to me, so it’s crap”. Are you crazy?! You can’t solve epistemology like that!

Epistemic slop ends in scientific slop.

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