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A History of Ideas - Physicist Tara Shears on Falsification - BBC Sounds

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A History of Ideas

Physicist Tara Shears on FalsificationPhysicist Tara Shears on Falsification

Released On: 05 Aug 2015

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How can we separate real science from mumbo jumbo? Physicist Tara Shears investigates.

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