Ignorance: How it drives science

By S. Firestein. 2012

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Big Data consumer analytics and the transformation of marketing (2016, unknown): “Open-mindedness helps researchers better questions that are critical for the discovery of knowledge (Firestein, 2012).”
The theory of constructed emotion: an active inference account of interoception and categorization (2017, unknown): “This is a feature, not a bug, because it fosters scientific discovery (Firestein, 2012).”
Seven Shortfalls that Beset Large-Scale Knowledge of Biodiversity (2015, background): “( James Clerk Maxwell, quoted in Firestein 2012, p. 48) In science, ignorance refers to what we do not know.”
The Search for True Numbers of Neurons and Glial Cells in the Human Brain: A Review of 150 Years of Cell Counting (2016, background): “…for the notion of a 10:1 GNR over a 50-year period is an example of a major failure in the scientific process that is supposed to self-correct invalid claims or reports (Committee on the Conduct of Science, 1989; Neville, 2007; Firestein, 2012; Ioannidis, 2012), as explained in more detail below.”