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Publishing scientific discovery
It is extremely common to set out expecting to discover one thing and instead to discover another (e.g. [[Penicillin|Fleming]], Jansky, Kamerlingh Onnes, and innumerable others). This is so common that it even has a name: ''serendipity''. Serendipity is not blind [[luck]]. It is the opposite of blind luck; it is the kind of luck that you earn by being smart and keeping your eyes open. [http://www.av8n.com/physics/scientific-methods.htm]
It is extremely common to set out expecting to discover one thing and instead to discover another (e.g. [[Penicillin|Fleming]], Jansky, Kamerlingh Onnes, and innumerable others). This is so common that it even has a name: ''serendipity''. Serendipity is not blind [[luck]]. It is the opposite of blind luck; it is the kind of luck that you earn by being smart and keeping your eyes open. [http://www.av8n.com/physics/scientific-methods.htm]
After an scientific discovery has been made the difficulty is to have it properly interpreted and adopted.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Sunday Gentleman
After a scientific discovery has been made the difficulty is to have it properly interpreted and adopted.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Sunday Gentleman
|author=Irving Wallace
|author=Irving Wallace
|year=1965
|year=1965
|page=334
|page=334
|url=https://books.google.com/books?ei=4kM8UdymCOWB4ATgn4HYDQ&id=Zytex3Q42BIC&dq=Irving+Wallace+The+sunday+gentlemen&q=discoverues+understood#search_anchor|quote=...the difficulty is less in discovering than in having discoveries understood and adopted.}}</ref>
|url=https://books.google.com/books?ei=4kM8UdymCOWB4ATgn4HYDQ&id=Zytex3Q42BIC&dq=Irving+Wallace+The+sunday+gentlemen&q=discoverues+understood#search_anchor|quote=...the difficulty is less in discovering than in having discoveries understood and adopted.}}</ref> It is the responsibility of serious scientists making an historically important claim to publish their [[scientific evidence|evidence]]. A scientific paper making a historically important claim on new scientific discovery must include its central argument, together with the data that support it. These requirements are matter of principle at scientific journals.<ref name="DeniableDarwin">{{cite book
|author=David Berlinski
|title=The Deniable Darwin
|publisher=Discovery Institute Press (reprinted from ''Commentary'' February 1998 by permission)
|location=Seattle, USA
|year=2009
|pages=414-415
|chapter=A scientific scandal? David Berlinski & Critics
|isbn=978-0-9790141-2-3
|url=http://www.davidberlinski.org/deniable-darwin/about.php
|quote=}}</ref>
==References==
==References==