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Personal beliefs versus scientific innovation: getting past a flat Earth mentality

  • Written by Igor Juricevic, Assistant Professor of Psychology (Perception and Cognition), Indiana University South Bend
imageCan new ideas break through preconceived notions?Light bulb image via www.shutterstock.com.

The history of science is also a history of people resisting new discoveries that conflict with conventional wisdom.

When Galileo promoted Copernicus' theory that the Earth revolves around the sun – counter to church doctrine about the Earth being the...

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