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Can You Change Your Mind About Science?
Scientists are people, right? And we are. Ah, we cling to our ideas, and it's really hard for us to change our minds about anything. I often tell my students that science is theory based, not fact based. A we can't get a full picture of the world just by stitching together facts that we discover in the lab. We have to have a coherent theory. The theory has to have a the capacity to make predictions and for us to form questions. So you asked me, when was my mind changed? i suppose that i've been a cartesian juellist for much of your life. But i got into nero science in his twenties, and i