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

256 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy psychology science informative slow-paced
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New insights from the science of science  Facts change all the time. Smoking has gone from doctor recommended to deadly. We used to think the Earth was the center of the universe and that Pluto was a planet. For decades, we were convinced that the...

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