Scientific paradigms
Once a scientific theory is established, it is difficult to get the scientific community to abandon it.
Science philosopher Thomas Kuhn used the term scientific paradigm to explain a working set of concepts under which science operates. When one paradigm is overturned in favour of a new set of theories, the very nature of science changes.
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