It is a noble endeavour.... but perhaps you are re-inventing the wheel here?
Has this topic not already been covered extensively? Maybe it would be more useful to simply create a catalogue of links that relate to what are trying to do?
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It is a noble endeavour.... but perhaps you are re-inventing the wheel here?
Has this topic not already been covered extensively? Maybe it would be more useful to simply create a catalogue of links that relate to what are trying to do?
Here is my inquiry:
Give me an example of an ongoing area of mystery or controversy in your field that will be left to the next generation of scientists to solve.
And my reason is as follows. I collect antique botany books. In the late 1800's it was not unusual to see phrases like "it is currently understood that" or "according to current research". Today's texts, even if it is based on research that is on shaky ground, states everything like it is a fact. This leads today's students into the mindset that there is nothing new in science, that all there is to be discovered is discovered, that science is infallible and everything in the text book is right.
Give me an example of an ongoing area of mystery or controversy in your field that will be left to the next generation of scientists to solve.
And my reason is as follows. I collect antique botany books. In the late 1800's it was not unusual to see phrases like "it is currently understood that" or "according to current research". Today's texts, even if it is based on research that is on shaky ground, states everything like it is a fact. This leads today's students into the mindset that there is nothing new in science, that all there is to be discovered is discovered, that science is infallible and everything in the text book is right.