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Yes, You Can Prove a Negative
I Get This Critique So Much, I Researched It
3 min readMay 8, 2022
We begin this journey with this Wiki:
Our first link from this article is on the Evidence of Absence:
From this article, the all-important quote is the following:
“Science
In carefully designed scientific experiments, even null results can be evidence of absence.[7] For instance, a hypothesis may be falsified if a vital predicted observation is not found empirically. At this point, the underlying hypothesis may be rejected or revised and sometimes, additional ad hoc explanations may even be warranted. Whether the scientific community will accept a null result as evidence of absence depends on many factors, including the detection power of the applied methods, the confidence of the inference, as well as confirmation bias…
