LETTER : Science is always provisional

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It's openness to being proved wrong makes it the surest way forward

Yet science does none of this. It is best seen as an ongoing inquiry whose conclusions are only ever provisional — that is, open to being shown later to have been mistaken. Meanwhile, it is the surest knowledge we have on a subject at any given point.

of course science disagrees with itself,

 

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