Re: [Phys-L] Science, Scientists, and the Scientific Method.

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

On 2012, Nov 11, , at 19:01, Ze'ev Wurman wrote:

> This weekend's WSJ has an interesting article about research for cure of Alzheimer disease.
>
> http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10000872396390443624204578060941988428604-lMyQjAxMTAyMDEwMTAxODE3Wj.html?mod=wsj_valetleft_email
>
> It describes how much of the research focused on one putative source of the disease -- a protein called beta amyloid -- and neglected another possible source, a protein called tau. It describes how the prevalent beta amyloid hypothesis may be slowly sputtering and the tau hypothesis is finally gathering steam.
>
> Nothing new here, except that the description of how the beta amyloid proponents fought against the tau proponents for a couple of decades made me smile.

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And I think of the Semmelweis "effect".

The following site writes the added irony of fortunately thinking prostitutes are "dirty".

http://www.renmorehistory.ie/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=85:bull&catid=44:contributions&Itemid=103


bc also reminded of Kuhn.