Straycat appears to have proven that interior decoration is a science. Clever.
It is not possible to falsify a statement that something is
possible, no matter how many failures occur. Therefore it was never falsifiable. Compare and contrast water dowsing. The statement "it is
possible to detect water with a twig" is not falsifiable.
It is indeed a fact. This is my point: medicine generates facts, not theories. X works, Y doesn't. It is a craft, not a science - like engineering. There are medical theories (eg the germ theory of disease), but they are generated from related sciences (such as microbiology).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory_of_disease
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