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Culture, history and society

Culture, history and society

A matter of evidence

26 Nov 2020
Taken from the November 2020 issue of Physics World.

In this article (originally published in Lateral Thoughts, Physics World’s regular column of humorous and offbeat essays, puzzles, crosswords, quizzes and comics, which appears on the back page of the print edition) Gary A Atkinson considers the emotive, and sometimes even political, concept of evidence

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“This experimental evidence does not match our theoretical prediction. We shall admit its failures

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Gary A Atkinson is a senior lecturer at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory’s Centre for Machine Vision, University of the West of England, UK, e-mail gary.atkinson@uwe.ac.uk
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