I've heard estimates that about 50% of all scientific work is rubbish. And
having been a scientist for most of my working life, I would not be at all
surprised at that estimate! Early in my career, an eminent scientist said
that there are first order 'facts', and second order 'facts' - those that
will stand the test of time and those that won't, and he implied that an
awful lot of scientific 'facts' came into the second category.
I like the quotations attributed to Niels Bohr:-
"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a
very narrow field"
"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true."
Bob Frost.
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From: "Marco Ugolini" <email@hidden>
My opinion about "every serious color scientist working with imaging" is
actually not very high.
Gosh, what a presumptuous thing to say...
As of today color science is vastly vodoo science, a pile of
controversial
information, half baked theories developed in a particular context and
used
in another where they do not really apply.
Yea, sure, the scientists at R.I.T.'s Munsell Color Science Lab are just a
bunch of pathetic hacks? Please, let's get back to Earth...or the label of
"pathetic" will soon find its proper place instead.
