Since the scientific community prides itself on its supposition that even the highest-ranked scientist could in principle be proved wrong by a student, one would expect such debates to happen now and then. Otherwise the scientific community isn’t living up to its own ethos.
Since the scientific community prides itself on its supposition that even the highest-ranked scientist could in principle be proved wrong by a student, one would expect such debates to happen now and then. Otherwise the scientific community isn’t living up to its own ethos.
The scientific community? Not adhering to the standards of science when it might cost members status? Stop the presses![1]
[1] Or invoke whatever procedure is now used to cancel a current ongoing print run of newspapers under modern production methods.