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Getting It Right in Science and Medicine: Can Science Progress Through Errors? Fallacies and Facts

Getting It Right in Science and Medicine: Can Science Progress Through Errors? Fallacies and Facts

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Sports GeneralChemistryPhysics

Publisher Price: $44.99

ISBN10: 3319303864
ISBN13: 9783319303864
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jun 6 2016
Pages: 285
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book advocates the importance and value of errors for the progress of scientific research! Hans Kricheldorf explains that most of the great scientific achievements are based on an iterative process (an 'innate self-healing mechanism'): errors are committed, being checked over and over again, through which finally new findings and knowledge can arise. New ideas are often first confronted with refusal. This is so not only in real life, but also in scientific and medical research. The author outlines in this book how great ideas had to ripen over time before winning recognition and being accepted. The book showcases in an entertaining way, but without schadenfreude, that even some of the most famous discoverers may appear in completely different light, when regarding errors they have committed in their work.

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