UNCERTAIN
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A five-part limited series podcast from Scientific American exploring the surprisingly deep and thrilling ways that uncertainty shapes science.
Inspiration, creativity, discovery—all of these things start from a place of not knowing, and these researchers know how to navigate those uncertainties.
We think that what we see represents stone-cold reality. Science shows how wrong we can be.
The tale of how the "backfire effect" ultimately, itself, backfired, and what scientists can learn from being wrong
The incentives in science don’t always encourage openness—but being wrong might just be the key to getting it right.
Some practical advice for how to sit, happily, joyfully, with uncertainty—and in doing so, grow and learn from it.
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