George Levine, a sympathetic and critical commentator on science, once asked,''What if important scientific discoveries were often made because the scientist wanted something to be true rather than because he or she had evidence to prove it true?''(Levine 1987, 13). In this chapter I tell the story of Emil Konopinski, who in the 1930s was a coauthor of an alternative to Fermi's theory of β decay. Although his theory initially seemed to be supported by the existing experimental evidence, further work .. [Book Review]

In Noretta Koertge (ed.), Scientific Values and Civic Virtues. New York, US: OUP Usa. pp. 120 (2005)
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