Why it's so hard to convince a climate denier

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25. You need both

I agree that you need to have a great deal of intuition to come up with a hypothesis. However, that is merely the first step in the scientific process. We will never know how many thousands of intuitive people came up with brilliant hypothesis to explain some phenomena, but then lacked the "sensing" personality needed to collect and analyze a comprehensive set of facts needed to prove their hypothesis correct to the scientific community at large. Perhaps that is why there are so few really revolutionary ideas in science that actually come from one person. There is no doubt that Crick was an incredibly intuitive person, but would he have ever been known as the co-discoverer of DNA if not for the hard grunt work of collecting empirical facts performed by Rosalind Franklin? According to Crick himself, the answer is no.

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From a letter Crick wrote in 1961:

However, the data which really helped us to obtain the structure was mainly obtained by Rosalind Franklin, who died a few years ago.

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