Scientists Make a Huge Mistake

Will it cost you your own Life? 

Each day we unknowingly place the safety of lives in the hands of doctors, scientists, and alleged professionals. Should we or should we not?

     

     Scientists, doctors, judges and lawyers are essentially no different than the average human being in that they can make mistakes. Consider this example as evidence to support this claim. This is a Leopard frog or so most scientists thought for the last century or so, but infact recent DNA testing proved to have incredible results. According to the story in a recent on-line article from Rutgers University "Lead author and evolutionary biologist Cathy Newman was completing her master’s at The University of Alabama while working with Leslie Rissler, associate professor of biological sciences at Alabama, on an unrelated study of the southern leopard frog species when Newman first contacted doctoral candidate and co-author Jeremy Feinberg at Rutgers in New Jersey. Newman asked for help on her project, and in return, Feinberg, an ecologist, asked the geneticists if they could help him investigate some "unusual frogs" whose weird-sounding calls were different from other leopard frogs."

      The unusual croak of the frog alerted the Feinberg to test the frog, but how long would this mistaken identity have gone on and are their other circumstances?

 

Stumbling Over Data: Mistakes Fuel Climate-Warming Skeptics is the title of an online article listing several recent mistakes made by supposed experts and suggests that mistakes can be made so everyone should fact check information. Granted these mistakes are not life threatening, but what if they were?

     The point of this blog is to simply suggest that even experts can make mistakes so do not be surprised when it happens and always take the time to find out for yourself before it is too late