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Friday, 30 August 2024

Science and the elusive truth

 

 

This quote from Richard Horton goes back a long way.  He was of course talking mostly about medical research, but I think we can see a close parallel in the research on Stonehenge and the bluestones, can't we?

Of course, no science can ever be completely true -- by its very nature it is incremental.

2 comments:

  1. Have you seen this, Brian? https://www.academia.edu/123393107/Altar_Stone_not_from_Orkney?email_work_card=view-paper

    You couldn't make it up, really, could you?

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  2. Yes thank you Steve -- I have been giving it a first reading. It's high time for these guys to take a break from helter-skelter publishing and to do some thinking instead........... as you say, you couldn't make it up..........

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