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Explain the self-correcting nature of science.​

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The notion of a self-correcting science is based on the naive model of science as an objective process that incorporates new information and updates beliefs about the world depending on the available evidence. When new information suggests that old beliefs are false, the old beliefs are replaced by new beliefs.
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The notion of a self-correcting science is based on the naive model of science as an objective process that incorporates new information and updates beliefs about the world depending on the available evidence. When new information suggests that old beliefs are false, the old beliefs are replaced by new beliefs.

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