Re: Scientific American on epidemic of false claims

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On 6/11/2011 2:44 AM, Chris Malcolm wrote:

Many scientific controversies involve dispute about what is and is not
a fact. Most scientific revolutions involve overturning things which
were previously accepted as indisputable facts. Newton's ideas about
time, space, mass and energy were for a long time considered not only
to be indisputable fact but to be pradigmatic examples of
scientifically indisputable fact.

Until Einstein successfully disputed them.


"If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research."

-Albert Einstein
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