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During my years as a student at Bergen University (1957-1962) my view of science was a very simplistic one – basically stripped of all non-professional interference. I believed scientific theories were products of meticulous observation and careful...
DISCUSSION “[A well-trained rationalist] will obey the mental image of his master, he will conform to the standards of argumentation he has learned, he will adhere to these standards no matter how great the confusion in which he finds himself, and...
“Nearly all scientific research leads nowhere” – Nobel Laureate Peter Medawar (1969, p. 31) The Ideal versus the Real When I was a student and, subsequently, a young researcher, I thought of science as the epitome of reason and rationality –...