Learning Biology is an evolving process. The science keeps changing towards a greater understanding and sometimes the conclusions that were drawn are not always right. For example, blood letting or bleeding a person used to be the treatment for some diseases. That was an acceptable form of treatment but now we wonder as to what led to those conclusions? It is difficult to be just 100% right all the time. When a scientist makes a specific theory, it is based upon the data that is available at that time. If that data changes over the period or some new information comes in then the theory has to change. As scientists, we beat ourselves up on being right 100% of the time and if that is what we aim for then it would be impossible to conclude anything and we would just want to be quiet and live in a cave without concluding anything. However, the good scientists try’s to find the interesting (which may also vary) things in the world and work on them. There is another catch here: if they work on something that is just “cool” and has a lot of other scientists working on them, then there will be no differentiator. A good scientist will try to discover and work on interesting things to work on that are interesting to them and are cool but is the kind of thing that no one is paying much attention to…
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