Originally posted by PNUTTRO
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Rather than being surprised/shocked/amazed/etc. that even major research results are later shown to be false, it should garner a yawn at this point.
Still, compared to bench research, it is far easier to sit back in a lay armchair and self-satifyingly criticize and deride individual reports from people who at least tried to do the hard work of finding the correct answer.
In general though not always, it is easier to rule things out than to show a positive result. That's the way science works... ruling out incorrect answers and hopefully the most correct answer that captures the most data in hand is left standing. And still that may not be the right answer. As unsatisfying as that may seem, science is still the only game in town for actually knowing anything.
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