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Multiple goals, multiple solutions, plenty of second-guessing and revising—here's how science really works

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David Rothkopf : A romanticized picture of science was standard for a long time, but it's as far from actual scientific practice.

He says when the public holds science to unrealistic standards, any claim failing to live up to them arouses suspicion.

While public trust in science is strong globally, it has been eroding, Rothpf says.

He argues that science is a social and contrarian process, where it is almost always for disagreements among experts.

In the 1600s , Descartes and Leibniz fought over how to best characterize the laws of dynamics and the nature of motion.

The nature and structure of fundamental particles and associated fields have been the subject of scientific research for more than a century .

Distrusting researchers for having healthy scientific disagreements is largely misguided.

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