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> you can’t falsify the theory of evolution, but the the theory still has meaning.

The theory of evolution is falsifiable.

As you say, medical interventions often cannot ethically be falsified. However, medical trials are typically set up in a way designed to test if they work with an eye towards also detecting if they do not. Which is to say trials enable falsifying them. This happens quite often when pharmaceuticals fail trials.




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