Stuart Firestein on the reliability of facts
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Channel: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) · 2012 · Education
The author of Ignorance: How It Drives Science explains the slippery nature of facts from revision and alteration to overturning and destruction, and trying to figure out what we don't know. Stuart Firestein is Professor and Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, where his highly popular course on ignorance invites working scientists to come talk to students each week about what they don't know. For more information: http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Medicine/Neuroscience/?view=usa&ci=9780199828074 (c) Oxford University Press USA
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