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In The Eye Of The Cyclops: The Classic Case Of Cospeciation And Why Paradigms Are Important, Daniel R. Brooks, Eric P. Hoberg, Walter A. Boeger
In The Eye Of The Cyclops: The Classic Case Of Cospeciation And Why Paradigms Are Important, Daniel R. Brooks, Eric P. Hoberg, Walter A. Boeger
Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty and Staff Publications
Scientific disagreements due to empirical problems—not enough data, not enough of the critical type of data, problems in analyzing the data—are generally short-lived and resolved in the next cycle of data production. Such disagreements are thus transitory in nature. Persistent scientific conflicts, on the other hand, do not necessarily mean some facts are correct and some are wrong, nor do they mean that we do not have enough information. More often, such persistent conflicts mean that the conceptual frameworks used by different groups of researchers are insufficient to resolve apparent conflicts in the data. The latter seems to be the …