A scientist agrees with the scientific consensus that dinosaurs have scaly skin. Then he discovers a new fossil that indicates a

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A scientist agrees with the scientific consensus that dinosaurs have scaly skin. Then he discovers a new fossil that indicates a

dinosaur had feathers. The scientist refuses to consider the new evidence because it does not agree with the accepted ideas. The scientist is

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emmasim [6.3K] · Answer 1 · 2021-11-14T02:11:49+03:00

The scientist is practicing skepticism by ignoring evidence

The scientists is skeptic about it and does not even want to look into it since he considers it to be fundamentally incorrect. This kind of behavior is bad for scientists because their goal is not to practice personal biases but rather to try and find truth on how things are.
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