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Originally Posted by Sparrow
While I think that's true, it seems to me that it runs counter to the 'scientific method' that scientists like to promote - where existing knowledge is used to uncover further knowledge.
Here, existing knowledge is overturned, and further knowledge is uncovered more by accident than design.
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Absolutely. But that's what being a good scientist is all about. You come up with a theory, make predictions from it, and then perform experiments to see if those predictions are accurate. If they aren't, you revise your theory.
I imagine it must be more difficult in fields like neuro-science. Experiments are probably less reproducable than those in fields like physics.