13 APR 2012 by ideonexus
How Scientists Differ from Clerics
When more evidence is garnered, whether through the analysis of additional characters, through the discovery of new specimens, or by pointing out errors and problems with the original data sets, new trees can be calculated. If these new trees better explain the data (taking fewer evolutionary transformations), they supplant the previous trees. You might not always like what comes out, but you have to accept it. Any real systematist (or scientist in general) has to be ready to heave all that...They must discard incorrect beliefs when facing new evidence.
28 MAY 2011 by ideonexus
Darwin Didn't Sound Like a Scientist
"At least at the outset," wrote the journalist Malcolm Jones, Darwin "was hardly even a scientist in the sense that we understand the term—a highly trained specialist whose professional vocabulary is so arcane that he or she can talk only to other scientists.Folksonomies: science communication darwin
Folksonomies: science communication darwin
His terminology was down to earth, not complex.