26 | Stuart Firestein on artful ignorance, failure, and neglect
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How Did We Get Here to This Situation and Is There a Way Out?
"We live in a country where hypothesis-driven research is what wins the grants and any fishing expedition immediately gets you thrown out of the discussion for getting a grant," he says. "How we got here is probably tricky and would be best left to a historian of science More some sociologists of science because it isn't clear to me." He adds that scientists should focus on ignorance rather than hypotheses, which are more likely to lead to false conclusions. 'It's the stuff we don't know that's creative, the stuff we know is Not going to be a source of creativity'
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