Art and science thrive on criticism, science particularly so, because the scientific process is usually a progress from an idea to a fact, from a possibility through probability to truth. You cannot make that journey and reach your destination – truth – unless there is a great deal of criticism and peer review along the route. Even when you have reached what is universally accepted as the truth, you may still be wrong and so the criticism must continue. (more…)
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