This is not exactly on topic, but hey.
Why does everyone act like Popper was a great philosopher of science? He wasn't. He failed to accurately describe scientific process, failed to provide a philosophical basis for the success of existing scientific method, and provided a fairly weak alternative method which is hardly ever employed in the real world. Worse, he failed to break out of the flawed philosophers mindset that gives pre-eminance to deductive methodology. Ok, he did some good work on the way, but I consider him hardly deserving of his reputation.