Ask Ethan: What should you do when a respected theory is false?
At every point in our quest to understand the world and universe — the one around us and the one within us — we can only start based on what we know and can imagine at present. We are biased by what we know and what we’re ignorant of, and we’re also influenced by the range of experiences that we’re aware of. Nobody has access to the full suite of evidence that all of humanity has ever collected,…
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