"Every hypothesis, every set of data, every claim and every conclusion is subject to re-examination in light of future evidence. Conceptually, this stems from the very nature of science."
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"Empirically, this can be readily observed in the pages of Nature and Science. We've seen it time and again. The most brilliant researchers and the most elite journals have published claims that turned out to be utterly wrong."
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This is good but there's a risk (and I've seen it done) that science sceptical people can depend on claims like these to defend the (equal) validity of pseudoscientific beliefs. So it's important to acknowledge the "relativity of wrong" as Asimov calls it http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm …
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