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INVITED SPEAKER
DR. NICHOLAS J. TURRO
WILLIAM P. SCHWEITZER PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Paradigms Lost and Found: Examples of Science Revolutionary and Science Pathological (and How to Tell the Difference)
The
path of scientific research can be described in terms of the action of
paradigms on the conduct of normal everyday science and puzzle
generation and solution. When certain research appears to create anomalies
and attracts the attention of a scientific community a scientific
crisis results which may lead to a true scientific revolution and paradigm
shift or to pathological science which is then ignored by the community.
Until the situation is settled by the community it may be very difficult to
distinguish
revolutionary science from pathological science. Some guides on how to
recognize the differences and how to avoid
pathological science will be suggested.