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One of the silliest habits of many in academia is to orchestrate a finding that “disproves” a theory that a colleague has developed and published. The authors publish their paper in a journal of repute, and then smugly lie back on a beach somewhere because their paper is now “in the literature.” This helps no one. Anomalies do not disprove anything. Rather, they point to something that the theory cannot yet explain. Scholars who find anomalies need to roll up their shirtsleeves and work to try to improve a theory or replace it with a better one.
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