Can Science Prove Anything? Hume & Popper | Why Trust Science? Part 1

Money, rights and gods work because we all believe in them. Is science just one more shared story? Part 1 follows the people who tried to make knowledge certain: from the first predicted comets, through Hume's problem of induction and the Vienna Circle, to Karl Popper's answer — a theory earns its place by saying in advance what would prove it wrong. It ends with a planet that broke Popper's rule and won. Chapters 0:00 Is science just another shared story? 2:00 From omens to predictions 4:35 Hume's problem of induction 5:33 Russell's chicken 6:04 The Vienna Circle's dream 7:34 The circle breaks apart 8:35 Young Popper in Vienna, 1919 9:46 The 1919 eclipse 11:09 Falsifiability 11:53 Neptune: breaking the rule 13:02 Vulcan, and an open question Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperin... Bentham, Anarchical Fallacies: https://content.csbs.utah.edu/~dlevin... Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2014) Historical sources: SEP, Problem of Induction: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/in... · Hume, My Own Life (1776): https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/My_Own... · Russell, The Problems of Philosophy (1912): https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5827/... · SEP, Vienna Circle: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/vi... · SEP, Moritz Schlick: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sc... · SEP, Karl Popper: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/po... · Kennefick, Not Only Because of Theory: Dyson, Eddington and the Competing Myths of the 1919 Eclipse Expedition: https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.0685 · Crispino & Kennefick, 100 years of the first experimental test of General Relativity: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10687 · Le Verrier and the discovery of Neptune: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.03688 · MacTutor, Urbain Le Verrier: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk... · Physics World, The legend of the Leaning Tower: https://physicsworld.com/a/the-legend... · IEP, Thales: https://iep.utm.edu/thales/ Next episode: Part 2 "The Human Side of Science". Narration: AI voice (ElevenLabs); music: AI-generated (Lyria) and original synthesized tracks.