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		jjgreen 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They b... You cannot prove a negative. How about Fermat's last theorem?

miltonlost 3 months ago [–]

Mathematics and scientific proof of negatives are different kinds of proofs.

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