So darn often, how true:
A most important generality excerpted from article authored by Jeff Wise:
"In theory, science is an entirely rational and transparent undertaking. Scientists gather data, form hypotheses, and then collect more data to find out which hypothesis is correct. That's the idea, anyway. In practice, real-life science is messy and often opaque. Data can be ambiguous. Scientists can be bull-headed. The process of shifting consensus has always been as much about politics and intellectual fashion as about theory and data...."
A truer realization has never been revealed to the world, nor the near religious attempts to bury the complexity and chaos and keep it top secret been greater.
What the article goes on to cover is something to be really hoped for and worked for, though, just as the man says.
‘I Almost Sound Like a Crazy Person, But I Think It’s a Superconductor’
Scientists are again buzzing about a potential breakthrough in superconductivity. Will this be another disappointment?
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A most important generality excerpted from article authored by Jeff Wise:
"In theory, science is an entirely rational and transparent undertaking. Scientists gather data, form hypotheses, and then collect more data to find out which hypothesis is correct. That's the idea, anyway. In practice, real-life science is messy and often opaque. Data can be ambiguous. Scientists can be bull-headed. The process of shifting consensus has always been as much about politics and intellectual fashion as about theory and data...."
A truer realization has never been revealed to the world, nor the near religious attempts to bury the complexity and chaos and keep it top secret been greater.
What the article goes on to cover is something to be really hoped for and worked for, though, just as the man says.
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