Getting It Right in Science and Medicine: Can Science Progress Through Errors? Fallacies and Facts

by Hans R. Kricheldorf

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319807978
• ISBN13: 9783319807973
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"