more than that, its now folklore that eddington fudged his data in favor of gr (omitting some photo plates that disagreed), related to some analysis by earman/glymour filtered through collins/finch and later popular accounts
100 years ago. this episode is also interesting bc its become a famous case study in the sociology of scientific knowledge, where its argued that the acceptance of this experiment as a decisive test of gr vs newton owed crucially to eddington's active efforts to frame it that wayhttps://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1193575718854152192 …
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but its not clear that that was the case! you really can account for the data reduction without bringing personal bias into it. still, was it legitimate? did it play a scientifically unfair role in the theorys acceptance? is this a question for the scientists or the sociologists?
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(yea i know how confirmation bias happens its just theres rly little reason to think there was intentional misconduct imo and that myth obscures real issues. anyway im tweeting to the wrong audience but if youre interested http://newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jkw/phys3550/Eclipse/Earman_Glymour_1980.pdf … + https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0709/0709.0685.pdf …)
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