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GETTING IT RIGHT IN SCIENCE AND MEDICINE - HANS...

This book advocates the importance and value of errors for the progress of scientific research!
Hans Kricheldorf explains that most of the great scientific achievements are based on an
iterative process (an 'innate self-healing mechanism'): errors are committed  being checked
over and over again  through which finally new findings and knowledge can arise. New ideas are
often first confronted with refusal. This is so not only in real life  but also in scientific
and medical research. The author outlines in this book how great ideas had to ripen over time
before winning recognition and being accepted. The book showcases in an entertaining way  but
without schadenfreude  that even some of the most famous discoverers may appear in completely
different light  when regarding errors they have committed in their work. This book is divided
into two parts. The first part creates a fundament for the discussion and understanding by
introducing important concepts  terms and definitions  such as (natural) sciences and
scientific research  laws of nature  paradigm shift  and progress (in science). It compares
natural sciences with other scientific disciplines  such as historical research or sociology 
and examines the question if scientific research can generate knowledge of permanent validity.
The second part contains a collection of famous fallacies and errors from medicine  biology 
chemistry  physics and geology  and how they were corrected. Readers will be astonished and
intrigued what meanders had to be explored in some cases before scientists realized facts 
which are today's standard and state-of-the-art of science and technology. This is an
entertaining and amusing  but also highly informative book not only for scientists and
specialists  but for everybody interested in science  research  their progress  and their
history!

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