Accept Defeat: The Neuroscience of Screwing Up

December 30, 2009 by whit · Leave a Comment 

This is a brilliant piece from Jonah Lehrer in Wired about how scientists get bottled up by their own preconceptions and groupthink and miss the discoveries their research is accidentally uncovering.  Key paragraphs: While the scientific process is typically seen as a lonely pursuit — researchers solve problems by themselves — Dunbar found that most [...]