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Originally Posted by issybird
Great insight, Charlie! I'll elaborate, if I may, that it's thus the problem that factions get invested in particular theories and methods and double down (to use the current cant phrase) when challenged. While scientists now espouse the scientific method as they did not necessarily do in the 18th century, we still have ample evidence of the behavior in other spheres today.
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Even in science we still see it. Einstein and his constant is an example from more recent history. His equations showed that the universe is expanding so he introduced an extra to cancel that out because he didn't want to believe it. Then Hubble showed that in fact the universe is expanding (by the color shift of stars) which shows that even very intelligent scientists can still make errors.