RA Millikan won the Nobel in Physics with data that was most certainly not presented as faithfully as it was collected. The upside for him, and us, is that it has since been reproduced repeatedly and is well accepted.
Being right shouldn't make it okay to omit or distort data to conform to one's preconceived expectations. But, again, his …
RA Millikan won the Nobel in Physics with data that was most certainly not presented as faithfully as it was collected. The upside for him, and us, is that it has since been reproduced repeatedly and is well accepted.
Being right shouldn't make it okay to omit or distort data to conform to one's preconceived expectations. But, again, his hypothesis meshed with reality, which is the ultimate test in Science. And there's actually some dispute amongst The Philosophers of Science as to whether what Millikan is really *in Whoopi voice* Fraud Fraud.
Most fraudulent hypotheses do not mesh with reality and the ultimate test in science should be the truth, although sometimes we may have to wait a long time for it to come out; Pasteur admitted (on his death bed and far too late) that his germ theory was wrong but still wound up being a major founder of the allopathic model of medicine , not to mention the fraudulent basis of all vaccine development.
"not to mention the fraudulent basis of all vaccine development"
Well, then that would be bad.
In Millikan's defense, his "discovery" is integral to the engineering of products such as photovoltaics and solid state amplifiers so it beats Lysenkoism, I guess.
RA Millikan won the Nobel in Physics with data that was most certainly not presented as faithfully as it was collected. The upside for him, and us, is that it has since been reproduced repeatedly and is well accepted.
Being right shouldn't make it okay to omit or distort data to conform to one's preconceived expectations. But, again, his hypothesis meshed with reality, which is the ultimate test in Science. And there's actually some dispute amongst The Philosophers of Science as to whether what Millikan is really *in Whoopi voice* Fraud Fraud.
https://onlineethics.org/cases/ethics-science-classroom/millikan-case-discrimination-versus-manipulation-data
In fact, Claudine Gay should consult with these authors and see if there are any grey areas for her reputation.
Most fraudulent hypotheses do not mesh with reality and the ultimate test in science should be the truth, although sometimes we may have to wait a long time for it to come out; Pasteur admitted (on his death bed and far too late) that his germ theory was wrong but still wound up being a major founder of the allopathic model of medicine , not to mention the fraudulent basis of all vaccine development.
"not to mention the fraudulent basis of all vaccine development"
Well, then that would be bad.
In Millikan's defense, his "discovery" is integral to the engineering of products such as photovoltaics and solid state amplifiers so it beats Lysenkoism, I guess.