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Karl Popper's Organon and the world's fisheries; fish stock assessment as a pseudoscience, an inductivism that can bear no fruit

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Corkett, Christopher

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If a scientist can predict the weather (poorly) Why cannot he predict fish yields (yet more poorly)? – a clerihew by Chris Corkett. Recent long term historical studies of commercial fisheries have pointed to a well established pattern of overfishing. Under the principle of transference – what is true in...

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Portsmouth Proceedings KARL POPPER’S ORGANON AND THE WORLD’S FISHERIES; FISH STOCK ASSESSMENT AS A