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Failure : why science is so successful /

The general public has a glorified view of the pursuit of scientific research. However, the idealized perception of science as a rule-based, methodical system for accumulating facts could not be further from the truth. Modern science involves the idiosyncratic, often bumbling search for understandin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Firestein, Stuart (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Failing to define failure
  • Fail better : advice from samuel beckett
  • The scientific basis of failure
  • The unreasonable success of failure
  • The integrity of failure
  • Teaching failure
  • The arc of failure
  • The scientific method of failure
  • Failure in the clinic
  • How to love your data when it's wrong : negative results
  • Philosopher of failure
  • Funding failure
  • Pharma failure
  • A plurality of failures
  • CODA.