Meaning of not even wrong | Babel Free

Definitions

Of a supposedly scientific argument or explanation: unable to be meaningfully discussed because it is based on fundamentally invalid reasoning or speculative premises that cannot be proven or falsified.

derogatory, not-comparable

Examples

“Your alternate name⟳ for “near monopoles” (magnets with one pole appearing much stronger than the other) is bad labwork—labwork so mesmerizingly awful that it flat out is not even wrong.”

“Some physicists claim⟳ that the dominant research⟳ program⟳, designed to overcome⟳ this situation, is not really science at all. As Peter Woit (2007) put⟳ it, it is not even wrong. If we ignore⟳ such critics of the state of physics and accept⟳ the mainstream view⟳ we are told that nature can only be understood through mathematics which now cannot be interpreted in non-mathematical language […]”

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