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Originally Posted by Richard J. Hanak
The idea of falsification in science is attributed to philosopher Sir Karl Raimund Popper. He accepted that unrestricted generalizations could not be verified. However, he called to our attention that they could be falsified.
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this book (which was a best seller -- an odd thing for a history or science book),
Against the Gods
provides a good history of risk evaluation, and along the way insight into hypothesis testing.
There are lots of twists and turns along the way, and a lot of people that incrementally improved what had been done previously.