Rick Casey had a good column about this in the Houston Chronicle:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...y/3649254.html

But had Deutsch majored in science, he might have understood that the scientific definition of "theory" is a bit more rigorous than the meaning found in common usage.

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