AUTHOR=Lockwood Mike 

TITLE=In Praise of Mistakes

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

VOLUME=9

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/astronomy-and-space-sciences/articles/10.3389/fspas.2022.852798

DOI=10.3389/fspas.2022.852798

ISSN=2296-987X

ABSTRACT=<p>Mistakes are a key driver of scientific progress. We should do all we can to eliminate them, partly to keep the literature record clean, but also because expunging what is wrong often leads us to understand what is right.</p>