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Mocked and insulted, scientist wins a Nobel
- chopin 10y agoShould have a (2011) in the title.
- anotheryou 10y agoHow does such a thing happen? One would think science is evidence based... Or is the evidence dismissed because it broke with the old rules? At some point it should be possible to convince a collegue to check the weird findings with you, no?
- jhbadger 10y agoGroundbreaking science is done at the edges of knowledge. Typically the first reports of new phenomena are rather sketchy and not very convincing. What happens is either 1) people can't replicate the results or find a way to explain the results in a more conventional way or 2) Later results support the initial findings and the original discoverer is hailed as a visionary, maybe even winning a Nobel for it. But the first case is far, far more common than the second, so it makes sense for scientists to be very skeptical of new findings.
- kjs3 10y agoScience is evidence based. Unfortunately, individual people don't always live up to sciences standards.
- techdragon 10y agoI think this is hardly surprising. It seems many Nobel Prize level discoveries, are for significant shifts in the understanding of a topic or field. As a consequence, other scientists are going to be sceptical. Just ask Barry Marshal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Marshall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Marshall)... uncanny similarly in some parts of their stories, particularly > Marshall has been quoted as saying in 1998 that "(e)veryone was against me, but I knew I was right."