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Practice Reading: Re-order Paragraphs ID: #36978 Empirical support
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But it's crucially important not to blur this distinction when writing articles for a general readership.
Otherwise credulous readers may take too much on trust, whereas hard- nosed sceptics may reject all scientific claims, without appreciating that some have firm empirical support.
This may be because, for non-specialists, it is tricky to demarcate well-based ideas from flaky speculation.
‘Scientists,’ he wrote, get no credit for failing to solve a problem beyond their capacities, they earn at best the kindly contempt reserved for utopian politicians.
The great zoologist Sir Peter Medawar famously described scientific work as ‘the art of the soluble’.

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