Fallibility and Authority

In William Sims Bainbridge (ed.), Leadership in Science and Technology: A Reference Handbook. SAGE (2012)
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Abstract

Over the centuries since the modern scientific revolution that started with Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and Newton, two things have changed that have required reorientation of our assumptions and re-education of our reflexes. First, we have learned that even the very best science is fallible; eminently successful theories investigated and supported through the best methods, and by the best evidence available, might be not just incomplete but wrong. That is, it is possible to have a justified belief that is false

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