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What Influence Did Pape's Project Have on the Scientific Method?
Simon chapper won a fellowship of the royal society. He is much discussed in this country from the 19 fifties onwards. His work raised two absolutely fascinating questions, both of which we've already discussed. Is method to describe the way very good science proceeds, or to recommend how very good science should proceed? It's not at all clear that scientists set out strenuously to falsify their favourite theories. Maybe they should, but many of them don't.