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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_history "The term is also used extensively in the history of science to mean historiography that focuses on the successful chain of theories and experiments that led to present-day science, while ignoring failed theories and dead ends."