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"Nuno Lopes" wrote:
>> A 'mature' scientific field? Isn't that an oxymoron?
> 
> Mature, in the sense that those fields enclose much more mistakes then
> we all can make in a 10 lifetimes.

So why bother emulating their mistakes? :-)

As I pointed out, "Half of what doctors know is wrong." That doesn't mean
medicine is bogus, it's just that the body of knowledge (as well as
methodologies) moves fast. Yesterday's theory, definition, belief, fact,
methodology, etc., is another 'mistake' tomorrow.

> Is up to an intelligent individual to recognize the good lessons and avoid the
> pitfalls. 

Easier said than done. 50% of doctors aren't necessarily unintelligent.

> Unfortunately some people just like to reinvent history each time they wake
> up. 

As some people would like to cling on to notions that are (or soon to be)
anachronisms, each time they go to sleep.

> A wee bit of humbleness is most of the times what one needs to reach an
> objective quicker, don't you think?

No I don't. Humility comes from realizing that our knowledge changes fast
and insisting on our own prejudices as gospel calcifies the field.

Ziya
Nullius in Verba