In praise of mistakes

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Lockwood, M. orcid id iconORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7397-2172 (2022) In praise of mistakes. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Science, 9. pp. 1-4. ISSN 2296-987X doi: 10.3389/fspas.2022.852798

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Mistakes are a key driver of scientific progress. We should do all we can to eliminate them, partly to keep the literature record clean, but also because expunging what is wrong often leads us to understand what is right.

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Item Type Article
URI https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/102458
Identification Number/DOI 10.3389/fspas.2022.852798
Refereed Yes
Divisions Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Meteorology
Publisher Frontiers
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