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Lisa Randall [6]
Physicist, Harvard University; Author, Warped Passages; Knocking On Heaven's Door
Randall's Law

Randall's First Law

Non-existence "theorems", which state something cannot happen, are untrustworthy; they are only statements about what we have seen or thought of so far. Non-existence theorems often appear in physics. They are useful guidelines, but there are often loopholes. Sometimes you find those loopholes by looking—and sometimes you find them by accident through superficially unrelated research

Randall's Second Law

Studies confirming Baron-Cohen's First Law will always reflect the bias of the investigator.

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