{"id":700,"date":"2014-03-08T15:14:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T23:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/?p=700"},"modified":"2020-10-18T11:58:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T18:58:07","slug":"being-wrong-over-and-over-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2014\/03\/08\/being-wrong-over-and-over-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Wrong Over and Over Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A film documentary about the discovery of the Higgs Boson illustrates the nature of scientific discovery, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/03\/08\/the_search_for_the_higgs_boson_%E2%80%93_and_why_science_will_defeat_stupidity\/\">according to film critic Andrew O\u2019Hehir<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201cParticle Fever\u201d illustrates the great strength and resilience of the scientific method, with its time-honored propensity for proving wrong the best guesses of brilliant minds. As the Stanford physicist Savas Dimopoulos tells Levinson\u2019s camera, a career in science is often about being wrong over and over and over again, and continuing to learn from those errors. This has a profound personal resonance for Dimopoulos, who openly discusses the fact that the Higgs experiments performed so far within the Large Hadron Collider or LHC, a 17-mile tunnel beneath the Franco-Swiss border, suggest that he has spent 30 years pursuing a theoretical model that is quite likely incorrect or insufficient. In the American context of bizarre public attacks on science by creationists and climate-change deniers who can never be proven wrong by any evidence they are likely to accept, the grace and dignity of this eminent scientist provide an especially worthwhile lesson.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A film documentary about the discovery of the Higgs Boson illustrates the nature of scientific discovery, according to film critic Andrew O\u2019Hehir: \u201cParticle Fever\u201d illustrates the great strength and resilience of the scientific method, with its time-honored propensity for proving &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2014\/03\/08\/being-wrong-over-and-over-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}