Imagine being the guy who spent two years purifying, weighing, and measuring the first-ever hunk of gallium in a lab and being told by some Russian who'd never touched the stuff that you got it all wrong. Lecoq de Boisbaudran was furious, insulted, but incorrect.
Should Mendeleev have been able to claim credit for Gallium since he theoretically had seen the properties of a new element more clearly than the chemist who discovered it?
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How can scientist be both correct and inaccurate at the same time?
Should that cost them their credibility? What are some current examples of this happening?
What did Einstein mean when he said “it is theory that decides what we can observe”??
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