02703nam 2200589 450 991081085990332120230124193245.00-19-939012-60-19-939011-8(CKB)3710000000449004(EBL)2110964(SSID)ssj0001517066(PQKBManifestationID)12561307(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001517066(PQKBWorkID)11500316(PQKB)10929665(MiAaPQ)EBC2110964(Au-PeEL)EBL2110964(CaPaEBR)ebr11081025(CaONFJC)MIL816162(OCoLC)914473720(EXLCZ)99371000000044900420150312h20162016 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFailure why science is so successful /Stuart FiresteinNew York, New York :Oxford University Press,[2016]©20161 online resource (305 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-939010-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 understanding in uncharted territories, full of wrong turns, false findings, and the occasional remarkable success. In his sequel to Ignorance (Oxford University Press, 2012), Stuart Firestein shows us that the scientific enterprise is riddled with mistakes and errors - and that this is a good thing! Failure: WFailure (Psychology)SciencePhilosophyDiscoveries in scienceFailure (Psychology)SciencePhilosophy.Discoveries in science.501Firestein Stuart1682087MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810859903321Failure4116452UNINA