The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date by Samuel Arbesman

• The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date
• Samuel Arbesman
• Page: 256
• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
• ISBN: 9781591844723
• Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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Facts change all the time. The age at which women should get a mammogram has increased. Smoking has gone from doctor recommended to deadly while the healthiness of carbs and fat seems to be in constant flux. We used to think the Earth was the center of the universe, that Pluto was a planet, and that the brontosaurus was a real dinosaur. What we know about the world is constantly changing. Samuel Arbesman is an expert in scientometrics, literally the science of science—how we know what we know. It turns out that knowledge in most fields evolves in systematic and predictable ways, and understanding that evolution can be enormously powerful. For ...

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