Sydney Brenner called this Occam's broom -- that could sweep inconvenient facts under the rug.
"Jim was a little more brash, stating that no *good* model ever accounted for *all* the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong." – Francis Crick on the way the exact sciences are actually pursued
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The attitude of "let's just throw out the outliers in the data" explains a lot of the state of misguided
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Not admitting the fallibilty of our judgement sets science up to fail. RF said it best: "The Uncertainty of Science" -R. Feynman Esp pgs 21-24 https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpeople.westminstercollege.edu%2Ffaculty%2Fccline%2Fcourses%2Fhon221%2Ffeynman.pdf …
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I like it, but looking at their careers afterwards, Francis Crick did a lot more than James Watson. Perhaps Watson was a little too brash...
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