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Then article speaks about the half life of truth, but that is really just how long it takes us to find out it was never true in the first place. But even that is assuming that in 100 more years we don't find out it was actually correct. We need to make a distinction between truth that becomes outdated and facts that were never true in the first place. So what percentage of current scientific conclusions are likely to be wrong?



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