Bad news alone cannot bring an entrenched dogma crashing down

Evidence

This volume is dedicated to exploring the ways in which the crisis has not yet served as an exemplary instance of falsification of much of anything; it explores various defense mechanisms of critical groups such as orthodox economists and members of the Neoliberal Thought Collective; the intention is to clear a path to some potential remedy to that situation. However, in order to reach that point, it is first necessary to become better acclimatized to the notion that a burst of bad news does not generally bring a dogma crashing down of its own accord. It takes a whole lot more than that; and thus a preliminary admonition of epistemic caution is the touchstone of the current chapter. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 95

Categorization

• SEED: Article angle: ‘Why every prediction of ideology’s death keeps failing’ — generalizing the success-failure of falsificationism from economics to politics.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 95
• XREF: connects to: A burst of bad news rarely brings an established dogma crashing down.; Factual propositions cannot be sustained merely by citing negative evidence — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 902

Broader Connections

• A burst of bad news rarely brings an established dogma crashing down. #corroborates (1.00)
• Factual propositions cannot be sustained merely by citing negative evidence #expands (0.75) — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 902