[Marxism] [Pen-l] Benoit Mandelbrot and the wildness of financial markets: SciAm

[Jim Farmelant]

On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:22:08 -0500 Craig Brozefsky <craig at red-bean.com>
writes:
> Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> writes:
> 
> > Well, if you're gonna throw out Occam's razor and multiply 
> entities  
> > whenever your model is falsified by data radically inconsistent 
> with  
> > the predictions deriving from that model, you're empirically no  
> > better, and philosophically much worse.
> 
> You tell those bastard bourgeois cosmologists whats what!

The kind of criticism that Shane makes of cosmology has
been made against string theory by some leading physicists such
as Sheldon Glashow.  String theory
having  become the leading
orthodoxy in particle physics, quantum field
theory and high energy physics.

Jim F.

> 
> -- 
> Sincerely, Craig Brozefsky              <craig at red-bean.com>
> 
>  
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