> In 1971, a sociologist named Murray Davis published a groundbreaking paper that opened with these two lines:<p>> "It has long been thought that a theorist is considered great because his theories are true, but this is false. A theorist is considered great, not because his theories are true, but because they are interesting.”<p>The above aphorism only applies to sociology theorists, not scientific ones. It aptly exposes the central problem with sociology -- an indifference to science and evidence.<p>Malcolm Gladwell is certainly interesting. But 100 years from now, when Gladwell's name had been completely forgotten, people will still remember Einstein, Hawking and Higgs.
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