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Famous Scientific Conflicts and Controversies

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Alecos Papadopoulos

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Did Gauss find the formula for $1+2+3+\ldots+(n-2)+(n-1)+n$ in elementary school?

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Alexander Gruber is striking

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Did Alfred Nobel collect his wealth by selling dynamite?

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Kate Gregory

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Discovery of zero

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Freddy

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Pythagoras vs. the idea of Pythagoras

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Colin McLarty

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Is there an astronomical reason behind the order for the names of days of the week?

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Semaphore

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Leibniz's stand on axioms and definitions

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Mark Fantini

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What is the history behind the Erdős number?

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Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'

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Mauro ALLEGRANZA

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Before 1964, did scientists generally believe there was life on Mars?

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Joe

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What were theories for why and how we see things?

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Amit Tyagi

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What was the definition of a scientist and how did it evolve? When was science categorized?

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WaWaWa

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When and why were mathematics and magic considered synonymous in England

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Has any broad scientific consensus ever been based on corruption rather than evidence?

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Paul Siegel

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Are ancient African mathematicians acknowledged in the history of mathematics?

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Ellie Kesselman

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What happened in astronomy between Hipparchus and Ptolemy?

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Alexandre Eremenko

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Did physicists around 1900 really believe they were close to "figuring it all out"?

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Nilay Kumar

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Why were so many pre-18th century Mathematicians polymaths?

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Gottfried William

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Hawking on Newton and the famed apple

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José Hdz. Stgo.

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When did the names of scientists first become the names of scientific units?

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How soon after or before the development of nuclear applications was waste disposal considered?

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J. W. Perry

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Hilbert's reaction to Gödel's incompleteness theorems

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Michael Weiss

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Why is American and French notation different for open intervals (x, y) vs. ]x, y[?

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Ali Caglayan

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What motivated Cantor to invent set theory?

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What were the dominant non-atomic theories of matter in the 19th century?

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BMS

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What theories preceded the wave, particles and duality models of light?

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Conifold

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When did Mathematics stop being one of "the Sciences"?

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Scientific progress claimed to be caused by dreaming

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Felix

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Why was Évariste Galois killed?

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Manjil P. Saikia

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Have numbering systems other than base ten ever been used or popular?

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StackExchange What The Heck

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Why did Einstein help in the development of the Quantum theory if he didn't agree with it?

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Ondřej Černotík

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What data did Kepler work out his laws from?

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Jack M

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Early history of the phase concept in the physical sciences

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Semiclassical

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Why were so many artificial intelligence founders so optimistic?

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Tom Au

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Ooker

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When was an eukaryotic cell described for the first time?

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plannapus

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When did physics texts start to teach Kepler's $3/2$'s power law as a result of Newton's $1/r^2$ law of gravitation, rather than the other way around?

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Colin McFaul

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Which came first, the natural logarithm or the base of the natural logarithm?

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Was Occam’s razor ever wrong?

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Hunan Rostomyan

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Scientific progress claimed to be caused by dreaming

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Franck Dernoncourt

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Have reviewers never been paid?

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Carlos Bribiescas

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When and how was the geometric understanding of gauge theories developed?

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Danu♦

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Cauchy's undead theory

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Cauchy's undead theory

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