tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5841910768079015534.post198014064610386300..comments2024-03-29T08:40:11.883+00:00Comments on BishopBlog: Frogs or termites? Gunshot or cumulative science?deevybeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15118040887173718391noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5841910768079015534.post-44047802163547351062020-06-07T00:46:49.829+01:002020-06-07T00:46:49.829+01:00"We do need to see what we are doing as part ..."We do need to see what we are doing as part of a cumulative, collaborative process in taking ideas forward, rather than a series of single-shot studies."<br /><br />Exactly. And the headlong rush for "novelty" at the expense of the slow grind of rigour and putting our work in context is damaging science in many fields.<br /><br />Or, as the chemist Frank Westheimer put it more pithily many moons ago, a month in the lab can save half an hour in the library...Philip Moriartyhttps://muircheartblog.wpcomstaging.com/noreply@blogger.com