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(of a statement or argument) Not able to be proven false, but not necessarily true..
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".
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.
Unfalsifiability: The main problem with any particular conspiracy theory is not that it's wrong, but that it's inarguable; not that it's false, but that it is unfalsifiable.
Use unfalsifiable when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Unfalsifiable means (of a statement or argument) Not able to be proven false, but not necessarily true..
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Possible antonyms include falsifiable.
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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