Quote (Thor123422 @ Apr 29 2020 03:20am)
Because negative results are still significant to scientific progress. A preliminary study didnt find h2h transmission in the very early stages of a new virus outbreak. Thats significant even if it would later be overturned as the number of cases grew.
Have you ever read the history of the conflict that lead to pasteurization?
Bruno Latour wrote a book called The Pasteurization of France, about infectious disease and human's efforts against it, and the conflicts that played out. It straddles the line between philosophy and science so it isn't really strong as either, but it is still very interesting and fun read.
I found it in Philosophy, Technology, and Society, which was a pretty cool class overall even though i learned a bunch of unimportant things lol. Learned a lot of very important things there too....Popper, Lakatos, Kuhn, Feyerabend, etc, who all have their merits and problems.