Science's Epic Fails
The Infinite Monkey Cage
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Is It Etil Edison?
Being wrong is a central part of the scientific training, certainly in research as onl it's unnatural. I think it's about retaining a kind of childlike sense of playing with the world and excepting that some of the things you think about the world will change or turn out to be wrong. It delivers robust ideas that are detestable and subject to being wrong, but the good ones survive. So darwin and lamark before him, were both operating in a time when people didn't understand how traits were acquiredr. And so they didn't really understand how particular characteristics of organism could be passed down through generations. But now we know this because genetics has helped us learn more
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