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The Popperian Podcast #25 – Donald Gillies – ‘The Philosophy of Medical Discovery’
The Popperian Podcast
The Myth of Scientific Discovery
Discovery of penicillin was not made by a single individual, says Coon. Discovery is two things discovering that there is something unusual and then discovering what it is. It's perfectly possible for one individual to notice that there's something odd going on here before someone else discovers what it is in the first place. And I think that applies very much to farming because there was an element of luck in it.
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