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Idea farming: it is a good idea to have bad ideas in science

2017-10-24

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There are few truly bad ideas in authentic science. We need to embrace science as a process- driven human endeavour to better understand the world around us. Products are important, but through better transparency, we can leverage ideas, good and bad, ours and others, to do better science. In a brief analysis here inspired by a recent discussion of the topic and previous introspections by other ecologists, it is p...

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Literature Corpus work: 7ceedec7-5fe8-5bb1-9be4-17fb43a6faa1
DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.3282v2

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