Some philosophers-notably Paul Feyerabend argued that this meant that…
Some philosophers-notably Paul Feyerabend argued that this meant that all science was irrational, and that there was therefore no reason to think any one scientific theory better than any other. (When asked why, in that case, he tended to fly in airplanes rather than on brooms, he replied, "Because I know how to use planes but don't know how to use brooms, and because I can't be bothered to learn.")
— from Takeoff Into Chaos · Everything is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World by Tom Chivers
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