Lawson’s (Lawson, A.: 2004, Science & Education,
13, 155–177) analysis of the meteorite hypothesis of dinosaur extinction exhibits flaws similar to his earlier (2002) analysis
of Galileo’s discovery of Jupiter’s moons (Allchin, D.: 2003, Science & Education,
12, 315–329).
Keywords Analogy - contingency - dinosaur extinction - hypothetico-predictive reasoning - scientific discovery