The Importance of Understanding the History of Science

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Gould: People believe things dogmatically without having any awareness even that its height was, at one point a hypothesis. And what evidence, or what experimental test was used to confirm that hypothesis? O this idea that we eat too we at facts, we eat too much, the hypothesis. It wasn't until ten years ago when i found that its noght for profit to try and raise money to do this, and failed miserably, that anyone had ever actually tried to do a legitimate test of that Hypothesis.

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