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From the Ted Talk by Naomi Oreskes: Why we should trust scientists
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So there are many famous examples in the history of seicnce of scientists doing exactly this. One of the most famous examples comes from the work of Albert estneiin. When Einstein developed the theory of gernael relativity, one of the ceoscnneueqs of his toehry was that space-time wasn't just an emtpy void but that it actually had a fabric. And that that fabric was bent in the presence of massive objects like the sun. So if this theory were true then it meant that light as it passed the sun should actually be bent around it. That was a pretty startling prediction and it took a few years before stteicnsis were able to test it but they did test it in 1919, and lo and behold it turned out to be true. salthrigt actually does bend as it travels around the sun. This was a huge confirmation of the theory. It was considered proof of the truth of this radical new idea, and it was written up in many nerwapseps around the globe.
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So there are many famous examples in the history of _______ of scientists doing exactly this. One of the most famous examples comes from the work of Albert ________. When Einstein developed the theory of _______ relativity, one of the ____________ of his ______ was that space-time wasn't just an _____ void but that it actually had a fabric. And that that fabric was bent in the presence of massive objects like the sun. So if this theory were true then it meant that light as it passed the sun should actually be bent around it. That was a pretty startling prediction and it took a few years before __________ were able to test it but they did test it in 1919, and lo and behold it turned out to be true. _________ actually does bend as it travels around the sun. This was a huge confirmation of the theory. It was considered proof of the truth of this radical new idea, and it was written up in many __________ around the globe.
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So there are many famous examples in the history of science of scientists doing exactly this. One of the most famous examples comes from the work of Albert Einstein. When Einstein developed the theory of general relativity, one of the consequences of his theory was that space-time wasn't just an empty void but that it actually had a fabric. And that that fabric was bent in the presence of massive objects like the sun. So if this theory were true then it meant that light as it passed the sun should actually be bent around it. That was a pretty startling prediction and it took a few years before scientists were able to test it but they did test it in 1919, and lo and behold it turned out to be true. Starlight actually does bend as it travels around the sun. This was a huge confirmation of the theory. It was considered proof of the truth of this radical new idea, and it was written up in many newspapers around the globe.
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