The history of science, as clinician and author Chris Kresser says, “is the history of most scientists being wrong about most things most of the time.” 38 Aristotle’s ideas were falsified by Galileo’s, whose ideas were replaced by Newton’s, whose ideas were modified by Einstein. And Einstein’s own theory of relativity broke down at the subatomic level—in the imperceptible land of tiny particles like quarks, gluons, and hadrons—where quantum field theory now rules. We were certain about each of these facts—until we were not. The “here today, gone tomorrow” nature of scientific theory is simply
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