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by _8091149529 1233 days ago
I agree with parent (despite the downvotes), there's an ontological mismatch in the title. Mathematical constructs by themselves cannot reveal truths about the physical world. Instead: Mathematical model confirmed by experiment. Or: Old observations elucidated by mathematical model.
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That's some nice philosophizing, but maybe you should read and understand the paper before dismissing it flippantly: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jo...
I'm not sure I understand, would you say Kepler's laws and the ideal gas law are pseudosience?