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Originally Posted by TimMason
Many scientists would disagree with you. Scientific knowledge is, by its nature, provisional. That is, indeed, one of the finest things about science : it seeks its own destruction. A interesting place to catch scientists talking to each other about stuff like this is the RealClimate site.
(This used to be true of "art" too, but in our own tradition we fetishize it, and keep it in a freeze box).
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Science seeks its own improvement, not destruction. And it challenges the knowledge that is worth challenging, not just anything. Although some people, in science as in other fields, will do anything to get into the limelight, it's not always something to be proud of.
And the statement about art is false also. Art is evolving and being challenged all the time. And here also, sometimes the challenge, just any challenge as long as it makes headlines, will try to pass for the art itself.