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Science 10 February 2006:
Vol. 311. no. 5762, pp. 781 - 782
DOI: 10.1126/science.1122678
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PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE:
Wallowing in the Wastebin

Douglas Allchin

Theories on the Scrap Heap
Scientists and Philosophers on the Falsification, Rejection, and Replacement of Theories
by John Losee
University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA, 2005. 216 pp. $24.95. ISBN 0-8229- 5873-2.
Using excerpts from the writings of researchers and philosophers, the author considers questions about the falsification, rejection, and replacement of scientific theories.
The reviewer is at the Minnesota Center for the Philosophy of Science and in the Program in the History of Science and Technology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.allch001{at}umn.edu

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