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longship

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3. Science is very conservative about these things.

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Tue Sep 3, 2013, 10:01 AM

Sep 2013

That's good actually. It takes more than a single finding to establish new science.

But when the extant science is lagging behind on all the new stuff, sometimes it needs to play catch up. Still, there are some scientists who are saying the right things in spite of it.

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Science is very conservative about these things. longship Sep 2013 #3