What is science?

It is a rigorous and boring process on which most scientists will practice their entire

lives without a significant single breakthrough.

Or is it a limited set of dogmatic assertions, some would say religious, from which no deviation

from the gospel is permitted?

Today we're going to look at cases where science, whatever it was, was upended in favor

of a new paradigm.

That's coming up next, Unskeptoid.

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Or listening to Skeptoid, I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

The day science was overthrown.

The scientific method is basically the process of having a question, finding an educated

guess that seems to answer it, then testing that answer, and 99% of the time, finding

it to be wrong.

But eventually we find an answer that withstands all our attacks to find its errors, so we

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