Philosophy Wire: Pioneers need no references!

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-08-17]:

A scientific paper on the aortic valve published on 1968. Had only one 500-years-old reference: Leonardo da Vinci who first explored the matter of how this valve worked. [1] This is what today's scientists will never understand: Pioneers do not need references.

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Philosophy Wire: Get me some innovation please...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-04-13]: Society today tries to promote innovation. What a dull era we live in. Innovation - as everything else - is ordered at will. No wonder we have so much of it…

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Philosophy Wire: Uncertainty Principle, Certainty Principle

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-03-04]: Direct measurements of the wavefunction challenge the infamous Uncertainty Principle. [1] I am really tired of all those "barriers" on which we base our knowledge for a century or so and then something comes up to bring them down. Why not say from the beginning that no barriers exist at all? Would that be a scientifically valid hypothesis (axiom-principle) ?

 

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Philosophy Wire: Innovation, science, Science…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-03-02]: A 15-year old teen discovered a new test for detecting pancreatic cancer. [source: Smithsonian, TIME, in.gr] The truly important news is not the discovery itself though. What is really remarkable is how the scientific community has accepted what a 15-year old teen says. This is what distinguished mass science from true Science!

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