Madeleine Goldberg (she/her)
@maddiegoldberg.bsky.social
dev cogneuro phd student @uoregon | puberty, social motivation, neuroendocrinology | NIMH + Pitt | mngoldberg.github.io | 🏳️🌈🧠🔬🥼
Reposted by Madeleine Goldberg (she/her)
Here’s the key point: science almost never “rules out” every imaginable possibility. That’s not how the scientific method operates. You can’t prove a universal negative with absolute certainty, and scientists don’t pretend they can.
November 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Here’s the key point: science almost never “rules out” every imaginable possibility. That’s not how the scientific method operates. You can’t prove a universal negative with absolute certainty, and scientists don’t pretend they can.